Word: siftings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interestingly enough, a musical sans clowns or waifs like Follies, which tries to treat mature women in a mature way, encounters substantial audience resistance. The show's actresses are seasoned by age, skill and valiance; Follies celebrates women who have learned to sift the grain of truth from the chaff of illusion, and the paths to its box office windows are now only half-beaten. What better evidence that the theater cannot profess a maturity that its audiences do not possess...
...must sift through the terminology of the various prizes to see which ones may be opened to Radcliffe women," Steiner said. "We are hopeful that Harvard will be able to open up some of its prizes to both men and women...
...semantic analysis and thematic recognition by computers. The CIA, for example, collects enormous amounts of raw intelligence data from which meaningful patterns must be inferred. The sheer bulk of data makes the process too laborious to be done by hand. Programming a computer to recognize important themes and sift out relevant data would greatly reduce the human workload. The FBI could also use such a technique for tapped phones: instead of having an agent listen to all the conversations, a computer equipped to recognize spoken words could monitor the phone and print out conversations relating to themes it had been...
...other newcomer to the University financial scene is Stephen B. Farber '63, assistant to President Bok. Last March the Austin Committee recommended that a "fact-finder" be empowered to "sift suggestions from all members of the University with respect to what might be termed the non-financial aspects of the University's role as investor" and then report to the Corporation...
...National Archives and Records Service like its far more modest counterparts, the Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, N.Y., the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kans. Actually it is a reductio ad absurdum of the presidential library system. No doubt historians will in time sift its unwieldy contents and make some pattern of them. Meanwhile, the building itself exists to tell history what to think. This is one of the traditional functions of monuments, but rarely has it been so heavily exploited in a democratic society. · Robert Hughes