Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the many mysteries of Joan of Arc's meteoric career, one of the most baffling is the origin of her inspiration-her "voices," as she called them. Was she hysterical? Was she insane? No, say two British students of the Maid and her works: all the available medical...
Computers have giant memories, but are exasperatingly literal-minded. The U.S. Patent Office encountered this problem in an acute form when it began planning a computer designed to extract from its memory all earlier mentions of a patent-seeking idea. Patents are described in ordinary English, and ordinary English proved...
Her face and figure are unfamiliar. But this week, when the black-haired, violet-eyed beauty strides across two pages of the movie trade papers, dressed in nothing but a wet white silk shirt, Hollywood will get the word. "R.B."-the modest monogram on the shirt's breast pocket...
"I Liked Her." Nothing goes on along the 14,000 miles of American's routes or among its 21,000 employees that does not interest Smith. He often rides the line alone on weekends, keeping tab on everything. His seamed, jowly face has become a familiar sight to stewardesses...
At its most caustic, social satire is brewed from sweet reasonableness, and nothing could be more reasonable than the modest educational proposal that is the basis of a spoofing report from the 21st century by British Sociologist Michael Young. First premise of The Rise of the Meritocracy, 1870-2033, published...