Word: novick
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...that the interest in theater on the part of the university would lead to control and the marginalization of student directed shows. On the other hand, after working in Agassiz, who would not want a chance at those facilities that the Loeb offered?” said Julius L. Novick ’60, a long-time theater critic and Professor of Dramatic Studies...
...could truly appreciate the global slowdown until the invention of the atomic clock, which uses the oscillation frequencies of atoms such as cesium, hydrogen or rubidium to mark the passage of time. According to Andrew Novick, an engineer with the time and frequency division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), there exist three types of atomic clocks: primary standard clocks, which are state-of-the-art instruments owned by only a handful of nations, such as Germany, Britain and the U.S. (there's one at NIST); smaller, rack-mounted commercially available versions that can cost as much...
...observations made at the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris. Since then, 24 leap seconds have been added, either on June 30 or Dec. 31; the last one was tacked on in 2005. At that rate, "it will be 5,040 years before we gain an extra hour," Novick says...
...biggest controversy so far, however, had nothing to do with Iraq or 9/11. It was the protest that Burns had not interviewed a single Hispanic soldier. Burns and Novick resisted changes at first (ironically, The War, like many Burns films, is fixated on race, namely the treatment of African Americans and Japanese Americans) but eventually added two Latinos and one Native American...
Finally, though, The War's power doesn't come from adding anything to WW II's vast historical record. It's what the series adds to the emotional record. We've seen the battle plans already on the History Channel, but through their interviews, Burns and Novick re-create the enormity of millions of young people literally preparing to die. "What we asked all the time was, What happened? and then, How did you feel?" says Novick. The answers make a much chronicled war fresh, real and heartbreaking--an elderly woman weeping like a child about being shipped...