Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simply exchange furtive notes with members of the opposite sex. There are still hundreds of such cozy havens all over the U.S., but they are turning into anachronisms. Their problem is that a technological age demands far more from a library than a quiet place to read and a random assortment of books...
...Some random Harvard students attempted to analyze the difference last night. "Bogey is pure escapism," one said. "But in the summer, there's really nothing to escape from. The people who have to go to Summer School have been working; the people who want to go to Summer School haven't worked, but don't care. There just isn't the same kind of tension...
...what is going on in the world." It is diverting to speculate upon the reaction at Harvard if a visiting professor were to write a memorandum to the History Department stating that he assumed every one knew that the word "charisma"--to pick a bit of academic jargon at random -- was of little analytic use, and hoped the faculty would have the kindness not to use it in the future...
ABOUT THE HOUSE by W. H. Auden. 84 pages. Random House...
...Francis M. Forster and his colleagues determined just what songs, just what instruments, just what rhythms caused Morton to have an epileptic seizure. Hooked up to an electroencephalograph, their patient listened to music with one ear, with the other, and then with both. He listened to a random noise generator with one ear while music was piped to the other. Stardust played on the organ produced no abnormalities; Glenn Miller's orchestrated version touched off fits. Hymns and Christmas carols played by an orchestra, or by a piano with a vocalist chiming in, caused equal trouble. Eventually the doctors...