Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Budding Novelist Helga (The Wheel of Earth) Sandburg recalled, for the Saturday Review, some early impressions of an awed offspring of her poet father Carl. One revelation: Liberty Lover Carl often proved less than democratic about the egalitarian reading habits of his kiddies. "I remember," wrote Helga, "an odd group of books called Bongo, the Jungle Boy. This is etched on my brain because one evening my father stopped in at my room to say goodnight as he was going to his attic quarters. Bongo sailed across the room flapping while a thundering voice reverberated, 'Life...
When a fellow takes out his tooth these days, the prime requirement is that she be a jazz bomb. He, for his part, is expected to make sure the coals are right for picking up the tab. Sometimes, of course, the heap plays sour, but more often the music is really served-served like a cloud, in fact. And if the sinatra is a keg, every number is liable to get real oblique...
This discursive method of arriving at editorial policy produces editorials that are the height of discursiveness. On many issues, Cowles editorials give sober consideration to a variety of viewpoints-and often end up advocating none. Cracks one rival Iowa editor: "They're like a butterfly in heat." Mike Cowles thinks that other papers are doing the fluttering: on foreign policy, he says, "most papers in this country have become eunuchs...
...Allen's series. But Board Member Francis Adams, former New York City police commissioner, was fighting mad, and smooth-talking Baptist Pastor Gardner Taylor, the board's only Negro member, smelled a race issue in Allen's statement that a 15-year-old John Marshall girl often played truant, spent her days as a Harlem prostitute. The board voted to investigate the affair, including, as Adams said pointedly, "the manner in which Allen got into the school -whether it involved a misstatement under oath." (Allen admitted in his series that he used a false employment record...
Machine Creation. Many of the speakers tackled the question: "What is intelligence?" None of them had a wholly satisfactory answer. Dr. Marvin L. Minsky of M.I.T. felt that the problem is unduly complicated by irrational human reverence for human intelligence. "We can often find simple machines," he said, "which exhibit performances that would be called intelligent if done by a man. We are, understandably, very reluctant to confer this dignity on an evidently simple machine...