Word: tact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Filming for the first time in English, he loses nothing but one elegant Gallic pun-in the original scenario the French words for "book men" and "free men" are combined in a portmanteau phrase: les hommes-livres. Filming for the first time in color, he employs it with admirable tact to contrast God's green world with man's grey life...
Anthony G. Oettinger, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, and a director of Tact, foresaw large possibilities for the project once it gets out of the experimental stage. He said that Harvard will lease a giant IBM 360 computer next June that will be used solely in Project Tact...
...Project Tact (Technological Aids to Creative Thought) will also be a valuable teaching aid in many lecture courses in a year or two, Adrian Ruyle, staff mathamatician, said yesterday...
Ruyle is still seeking students who have computer problems that might be able to aid in the project's investigations. He said, however, "to deter anyone who might want to fool around for an hour just for kicks before a Bogie flick, that students who use Tact's facilities will have to write up a critical analysis of their experience with the equipment." He also said that by the Spring most of the computer's time will be taken up by the two new courses...
...defined what victory in South Vietnam really means. If the President is bound to play a game of persistence with the Viet Cong -- a "we can fight longer than you can" policy -- he may find that the enemy is simply better prepared for this sort of tact than the United States. After all, the Viet Cong has been fighting, in one form of another, for almost two decades...