Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nightmare of the new automation is the optical character reader, which shoots out 30,000 pieces of mail an hour and shows no mercy. A postal clerk has about a second to read an address and punch in the first three digits of the ZIP code, which is then translated into a bar-code symbol for sorting mail by carrier route. With no way to slow down the machine, the clerk is like Lucille Ball in her comic routine at a candy factory. One moment, Lucy is standing at the conveyor belt blithely wrapping individual candies; the next...
Questions of leadership pop up frequently. Disappointed by Michael Dukakis' refusal "to stand on his hind legs and fight," Mamet drafts a strong and dignified speech that he and the reader would have liked to hear the Democratic candidate deliver. As a playwright, he argues that actors and directors should not freely interpret his scripts; as a film director (House of Games) he discovers that contrary to the cliche that making movies is a collaborative business, the enterprise is and must be strictly hierarchical. Having succeeded in the theatrical rat race against committees and long odds, it is not surprising...
...checked the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and the indexes of eight major newspapers for the period since the intifada began. I found precisely one article on the subject by Dershowitz--an opinion piece in The Los Angeles Times that ran under the headline, "Given the Full Picture, Few Can Fault Israel...
...possible that I overlooked some of his other works. After all, the Reader's Guide doesn't index Penthouse, and the Harvard library system is notoriously weak on smut...
...Crimson editorial staff would do well to focus their considerable talents upon their own publication. As any regular Crimson reader would know, your work is cut out for you. Just do it. Jack Moynihan '91 President, Harvard Independent