Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as any of the three assistant professors of English given tenure this year lends a touch of irony to the popular "publish or perish" assumption out appointments. In 1960 he published from Shylock to Svengali," on Jewish stereotypes in English fiction, to excellent views here and in England. Random cause is publishing his study of the historical novel next year...
...Your description of computers as "waited upon by crisp, young, white-shirted men who move softly among them like priests serving a shrine" brought smiles to myself and my fellow programmers. At a certain research installation we had a computer that would periodically begin rather violent vibrations whenever the random access unit was used...
This caused us little inconvenience, however, because an unknown computer operator had previously discovered that one swift kick at the center of the random access unit and precisely two feet off the floor would keep the computer still for weeks. Familiarity does breed contempt -even for computers...
...interview-based statistics on sexual practices through the late '40s. As for the present, Sanford and a team of researchers from Stanford interviewed girls at an Eastern women's college, a Western public university and a Western private university. At each, the team followed a random sample of women through their full four years, quizzed them four or five times a year. Insists Sanford: "We got to know them as well as our own daughters-or better. We are reasonably certain we have been told the truth...
ROAR LION ROAR & OTHER STORIES by Irvin Faust. 213 pages. Random House...