Word: randomed
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WHITE MISCHIEF by James Fox Random House; 299 pages...
Some officials spoke about distributing freshmen to Houses on a completely random basis. Others considered adopting Yale's system of "pre-assignment." which matches students with upperclass Houses even before they arrive for their first day of college...
...masterwork The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt argued that Hitler and Stalin used terror as a tool to fabricate a new kind of man devoid of individualism and self-respect, Didion correctly sees a similar phenomenon taking place in EI Salvador Indiscriminate, random killing deemphasize the value of human existence Murder no longer shocks Salvadorans; it is a natural part of life...
...inaugural and worldwide scientific attention. As colleagues and reporters clustered around him inside the observatory's control room, Harvard Physicist Paul Horowitz tapped a few keys on a computer terminal. A minute or so later, a jumble of jagged lines flickered onto a video monitor. They represented the random squawks and beeps of the universe that had just been picked up by the giant antenna. Only slightly disappointed, Horowitz sighed, "Looks like the same old noise...
...care if I never get home!/ I'm waitin' at the end of the road!" The new albums contain 57 songs originally issued on Sun, as well as seven others, initially slicked up with overdubbing, heard here "raw"; 77 more tracks, released pretty much at random after the Sun catalogue was sold in 1969, are presented in original mono sound; there are also 60 never-issued alternate takes of songs like Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, and eight cuts never released before, including a lubricious version of the Pat Boone groaner...