Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William B. Shockley. Nobel Prize winner in physics from Stanford University, was prevented from speaking at Dartmouth College when 25 students applauded so loudly he could not be heard. Although Shockley specializes in semi-conductors and invented the junction transistor, his paper dealt with the hereditary factors in intelligence, and was called "Offset Analysis of Racial Differences...
Harvard's varsity sailing team won another regatta Monday on the Charles River when it edged M.I.T., 34-41, in the Greater Boston Championships for the Rudolf Oberg Trophy. It was the 58th sailing of the semi-annual event, which M.I.T. won last spring...
...have, for example, the fall of art. No one, not anyone, no one at all spends any time these days on what he creates. More god damned books are made out of unedited collected speeches of semi-verbal figures of the press. Painters use unmixed primary colors bought in buckets from hardware stores. Sculptors put whatever they "discover" in the street on a pedestal and we've got " art trouve. " And rock musicians break up their groups if they don't get a recording contract five months after they start playing together...
Before it quit the CRIMSON set up a Graduate Board to keep a watchful eye on its temporary successor the Harvard Service News. The substitute was a four-column, semi-weekly semi-literate sheet that was not allowed to express editorial opinion. Although it was circulated free to military personnel. civilians in the University wouldn't take the Service News...
...have been about a pair of maiden aunts or bachelor brothers who in some 30 years have become fussily attuned to each other's quirky habit patterns. Charlie (Rex Harrison) is a peacock with a peckish tongue. Harry (Richard Burton) is a broody, sentimental mother hen with a semi-articulate cluck. Both men have auditioned for life and failed. Running a barbershop in a moldering district of London, they are each other's consolation prize. No hint of lust knits them together, only a saturating fear of loneliness. A special terror is to be aged and alone...