Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early in 1962, Brooklyn Attorney James B. Donovan received a cablegram from Berlin which said only: HAPPY NEW YEAR HELEN. The message was a coded signal that set in motion one of the dramatic moments of the cold war-the exchange of U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers for Russian Colonel Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, a top Soviet spy who had been imprisoned in the U.S. for the previous 4½ years. In this absorbing new book, Lawyer Donovan, the amateur diplomat who later negotiated the release of the Bay of Pigs prisoners, recounts the events leading up to the Berlin...
...whistle of air raid sirens today will signal only a test of Cambridge's now warning system, not a nuclear attack...
...help transportation in the greater metropolitan area is to alleviate the congestion in the core of the city. To this end, they proposed improving the circulation patterns on city streets, enforcing and modifying traffic laws, controlling or monitoring entry ramps on vital expressways, installing a modern-day signal control system, and providing more off-street parking in the city...
...attention of Model 70's mighty brain, he can tell his little Model 30 to call for help by wire. The Model 70 in New York or Washington will listen simultaneously to the troubles of many Model 30s. When it has heard enough, it gives itself a signal that stops its own work. All the little problems of all the little computers flash through its brain in a few seconds, and the answers are distributed to the proper branch offices. Then Model 70 can return to weightier matters...
What these artists create is only examples of reawakening realism. Yet they signal a change of mood. Realism, as opposed to abstraction, recognizes the external world and asserts the place of man and the objects that he makes within it. Sir Herbert Read, the British art critic, thought that realism is "an expression of confidence in, and sympathy for, the organic processes of life." Contemporary realists play it too cool for words like confidence and sympathy, but, almost reluctantly, they seem to be at least in touch with life...