Word: organism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simulation has come a long way in the 60 years since Edwin Link, the father of the technology, first used organ bellows and a suspended box to approximate the motion of an airplane in flight. The box has evolved into an instrument-crammed capsule equipped with color video and stereo sound. The bellows has been replaced by electronically controlled hydraulic actuators. And the illusion of motion has become so powerful that it is indistinguishable from the real thing. Moreover, with a few minor changes, the same technology has been used to simulate everything from spaceships to submarines, from armored tanks...
July 29-30, Hammond B-3 Organ Weekend...
Again the hands plunge down, bringing up more gore and then a tubular organ, which the bearded man stares at momentarily. "Oh, no! That doesn't come out," he apologizes, his eyes suddenly twinkling, and pushes it back into the body. The spell is broken and the audience roars, then titters nervously as he proceeds to remove additional gore. Finally he wipes away the blood, revealing an expanse of unbroken, unscarred skin...
Also on the program of the Baccalaureate Service, which is a tradition dating back to Harvard's earliest years, were organ preludes, hymns, and brief Bible readings by members of the class...
...friend in my House played organ at a small gospel church on Sundays. More and more I spent Sundays on Columbus Avenue in Roxbury. I never joined--I have too many metaphysical doubts ever to be a fundamentalist. But the instinctive comfort in gospel or blues remains with me to this day whether I know the song...