Word: productively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clarke novel superior aliens arriving in the form of a black monolith, the Devil, or a spaceship as big as a planet, would resolve the stalemate, usually by initiating man into a higher consciousness. Overmind--mind without matter--is the highest product of evolution in Clarke's scheme. Such a mind can flit from star to star, experience eternity as a single instant, and generally paint the universe red. (so if you were wondering what that baby floating across the stars at the end of 2001 was all about, now you know...
...dean, who replaced Dr. Robert H. Ebert when he retired this past summer, is very much a product of the system he is now shaping. Tosteson attended Harvard College from 1942 to 1944 without taking an A.B., and graduated from the Medical School...
Mobilization for Survival (MFS) is one group of people which has had the courage to say in response to these and other facts: "We are frightened at the determination of military leaders in all nations to press ahead with weapons systems. We are horrified that our money, the product of our labor, is drained away from human needs and invested in machinery of unspeakable destruction...we will educate ourselves. We will raise the consciousness of our communities. We will move into the streets. We will shake the foundation of any institution which tries to turn our future into a radioactive...
Ever had an urge to cut television's Six Million Dollar Man down to size? Easy-if you can afford $395 for an unusual new product turning up in some U.S. department stores. It is a pocket television set, barely larger than a paperback book, with a 2-in. screen. The set, called the Sinclair Microvision, weighs less than 2 Ibs., functions on all frequencies in most countries and operates up to eight hours on a rechargeable battery pack...
Partridge's new collection, the product of eight years of compilation, is as pleasing for its erudition as its entries. Under "It's a cinch," Partridge quotes an essay in the July 1893 issue of Harper's magazine that traced the phrase to the backpacks of mules in the U.S. Southwest. "I'll have your guts for garters!" a military expression, can be found in Robert Greene's 16th century The Scottish History of James the Fourth, Act III, Scene 2: "I'll make garters of thy guts, thou villain." "Sock...