Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important. William Henneman says, "I'm completely unimpressed by facts. I like storing hundreds of thousands of facts in a single sentence." It's the principle of the thing. And the principle behind intelligent automata is no more reassuring than the thought of the ultimate machine. Both suggest power--alien, far-ranging, self-determining, mysterious power. It is a truism that power corrupts men. What will it do to machines...
LIFTON'S concepts become intelligible only when he relates them to the specific case of China. "The essence of the 'power struggle' taking place in China," he argues, "as of all such 'power struggles' is power over death." The symbol of immortality linking Mao with the mass agents of upheaval is the Revolution. As an old man facing death, he has seized on his political work and vision as his connection with Chinese history. The knowledge that they will outlive him allows him to face death, and the threat of their corruption stimulates an almost paranoid response--a need...
...random distribution is that they would all huddle together over in the corner. In such a case the room would implode to fill the vacuum; you would be killed by the tremendous force of the reaction. The probability of this happening is about one in ten to the 73rd power. It's one of those things that either happens to you or doesn...
...Every time we get on a committee we have no power and only serve to ligitimize Faculty decisions that are not what we want," Alexander said in defense of his proposals...
...designs are too artistically eclectic, his figures too difficult to animate, to enable an attempt at the fluid control of the Disney method. At the same time, a compromise had to be reached since the stark backgrounds and limited movement of UPA or Hanna-Barbera (Yogi Bear) lack power and potential for complete realization of its creator's imaginative ideas. A strange animal resulted: stylistic form is almost non-existent, the movement of the cartoon figures is executed competently but no better, editing is largely unoriginal, and Edelmann's drawings--the frame content--consequently become everything...