Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived in Stiles College, a new house made of sombre, irregularly shaped stone towers that rise in fierce and jagged incongruity with the lacy elegance of the rest of Yale's gothic structures...
...early afternoon it was cold and sunless. A very light, raw rain began to wash over Yale's gray stone. I walked down Broadway, the slightly sleezier, more tightly jammed Mass. Ave. of New Haven. Down Elm Street to the Old Campus where the freshmen live and where several coed games of frisbee and touch football dotted the quad. All over the campus there was something giddy in the air--like a giant joke that everyone was in on. Lots of smiling went on. People smiled at each other on the street and said hello for no reason. One ecstatic...
...great deal of sympathy for a tale of a Harvard rejection I managed an invitation to luncheon at a Secret Society--like a Harvard Final Club but even crustier and more archaic. The Secret Societies are so secret that visitors are not even permitted inside the huge, windowless stone "tombs" that house them, and we had our lunch on the fourth floor of a nearby University administration building...
Money tells much about a nation's character because it is so closely entwined with a nation's history, psychology and destiny. Ever since Stone Age men began bartering with furs, and the ancient Lydians introduced metal money, practically every dominant civilization has risen to power partly through its ability to create and maintain a stable, widely valued currency. If money has not always bought happiness, it has often cured ignorance and illness, supported the arts and established productive cultures...
...course, that potential is still in the Stone Age. As of now, a computer is limited by its program and so by its programmer. But machines are already showing the capacity to teach themselves, to fill gaps in their programs and come up with original solutions. Furthermore, programming becomes constantly more sophisticated, and whatever learning the computer undergoes while following the program is proportionately more sophisticated. And whatever one computer knows, they all know...