Word: searcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of their photoelectric cells, Seawright's machines respond to one another and to the presence of people. When Searcher beams light from its circling radarlike dishes, Scanner's flailing arm picks up the beacon with its light sensors; then Captive, impelled by a motor, skids and twitches about on a mirrored platform. "The machines process information," says Seawright, 30, an Ole Miss grad who instructs at Manhattan's Electronic Music Center (run by Princeton and Columbia). "Their cells and sensors collect information on light and sound, and they behave accordingly. My aim is to produce...
...that Tracers found more than 4,000 C.U. alumni, whose contributions helped raise the university's alumni fund from $70,000 to $150,000 last year. The University of Pennsylvania was pleased with Tracers' work in finding 300 alumni, but has since hired its own full-time searcher at a $5,000 salary, and she has found about 7,000 alumni...
...information-retrieval" systems, Stromberg-Carlson has produced its 4020, Eastman Kodak its Recordak Miracode, RCA its 3488 and IBM its Walnut, which is used by the Central Intelligence Agency. Last week California's Ampex Corp. introduced the latest retrieval machine, a completely automated microfiling system that allows the searcher to edit his material as he selects...
...Government to redeem Confederate money, $10 million of which he happens to have. Jester's fantasy revolves around the suicide of his father: if he can discover the cause of that, he feels, he will establish his own identity. Sherman is also an identity searcher, but his fantasy is that his mother is some noted Negro show business celebrity who was raped by a white man. All of these fantasies are punctured by melodramatic devices-including the single most horrifying episode in the book, the strangulation of Jester's dog-that leave both novel and characters thoroughly deflated...
Wystan Hugh Auden is a chameleon among modern poets. He has moved from Marxism to Anglo-Catholicism, changed with startling ease from the gay garb of a tart poetaster to the grave robes of the searcher for ultimate truth. He often goes back over his poems and revises them to conform with his new sentiments. From some of his work, as his thinking turned increasingly conservative, he dropped scathing references to dons, capitalists and churchmen-for instance these lines written...