Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This first complete recording of the opera in stereo comes close to equaling London's celebrated stereo recording of Das Rheingold. The sound of the orchestra is glowing and massive, and Nilsson's voice soaring through it and over it is a delight. For those anxious to peek behind the scenes, London has included a bonus recording of a rehearsal explaining how it was done...
What computers can already do makes any prophecy of future potentialities difficult: it is hard to top the fantastic. But Dr. Simon Ramo, executive vice president of the booming electronics firm of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge (TIME cover, April 29, 1957), last week took a bold peek into the future. At a U.C.L.A. lecture, Si Ramo painted a picture of the coming "age of intellectronics...
...scoring devices." Others propose simply to let programed books do the job. Skinnerian books make turning a page to find an answer and a new frame the equivalent of switching frames on a machine. That permits easy cheating, but book programers argue that interesting programing eliminates the desire to peek ahead. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films' big programing division uses nothing but books, employing a plastic mask to reveal frames...
After lunch Kennedy kept up his sales talk through the daily golf game (no player, Rooney penciled in the scores), later let his visitor sit in on private talks with Lyndon on overall congressional tactics. As a special treat, Rooney was even granted a peek at tiny John Fitzgerald Jr. (his impression: "I think he looked like a helluva baby...
Latin scholars, whenever they peek out from behind their soup-stained neckties and that untidy mess of irregular verbs, seem to be nice old dears. Take Alexander Lenard, M.D., a 50-year-old Hungarian linguist who for the last eight years has been teaching and farming in a small town near Sāo Paulo, Brazil. When he first read A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, he apparently thought of all those poor little children in ancient Rome who would never be able to read it, and he felt just awful. There was only one thing...