Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifteen months after leaving home, Legson appeared at the U.S. Information Service Library in Kampala, Uganda. There he came across a directory of American junior colleges, opened it at random, put his finger on the first words he saw: "Skagit Valley Junior College, Mt. Vernon, Washington." Then and there, he wrote a letter; two weeks later he had a scholarship; nine months later, thanks to the people of Mount Vernon, he had a plane ticket...
WANDERERS EASTWARD, WANDERERS WEST by Kathleen Winsor. 947 pages. Random House...
...example of series music Krenek played a tape of his "Quaestio Temporis," a short piece for chamber orchestra. "It sounds completely random," he said, following the tape, "but it is actually highly structured." The listener has difficulty in orienting himself because there is no tempo in the conventional sense, he explained; rather, there are six different speed zones which are determined by a Fibonacci series, in which each element is the sum of the two proceeding...
Faltering Will. Southern resistance to Negro equality took a form that would today be called guerrilla warfare: a network of secret cells, random terrorism, assassination, intensive propaganda, and armed irregular units able to melt into the population like Mao Tse-tung's celebrated fish. The resistance was successful-like all other guerrilla movements that have succeeded-only because of a faltering of will and a turning away from the struggle by the Federal Government...
...PRIME MINISTER'S DAUGHTER by Maurice Edelman. 246 pages. Random House...