Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paragraph as composed by Vaughan is not to be confused with the paragraph as defined by grammarians. Sometimes Vaughan's product is no more than a sentence, and seldom does it exceed two. When successful, it is a marvel of compression, laced with wisdom or wit. "The paragraph is an uncompromising medium," says Vaughan. "In 25 or 30 words you have to say something wise or funny, with no chance to pad it out or conceal the lack of point. Also, the paragraph presupposes some information on the part of the reader. The paragrapher can't explain what...
Time was when all talk of communication between earthbound man and creatures on other planets seemed like a product of far-out science fiction. Today radio astronomers discuss such interplanetary conversation as a distinct possibility. In the magazine Science, German Astronomer Sebastian von Hoerner demonstrates with intricate mathematical logic that planets suitable for life may be fairly common among the stars. On some of those planets, says Von Hoerner, there may well be creatures intelligent enough to transmit radio messages across the enormous distances of interstellar space. But for all this skill, he says, such highly developed civilizations will rarely...
...most important product of education is a constructive, consistent and compelling system of values around which personal and social life may be organized. Unless teaching and learning provide such a focus, all the particular knowledge and skills acquired are worse than useless. An 'educated' person whose information and ability are directed to no personally appropriated worthy ends is a menace to himself and to society. A highly sophisticated society educated to no coherent way of life is likewise by its very learning made the more prone to disease and degeneration...
...necessity to raise exports, which currently bring in a meager 4% of the U.S. gross national product, promises to spark the lustiest congressional fight of 1962; it will come over President Kennedy's bid for sweeping new powers to negotiate tariff reductions with the European nations. If the President wins his battle, U.S. businessmen will be presented with their broadest new market-and toughest new competition-since the 13 original states erased their tariffs against one another...
...HONEYMOON MACHINE. The production-line product at close to its best: a neat little cybernetic comedy in which the bank at a Venice casino is broken by a fellow named MAX (Magnetic Analyzer Computer Synchrotron...