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Lego has come a long way from the little bricks I played with as a kid. The company now manufactures 15 billion bricks and other pieces a year. The first motorized Lego kit appeared in 1966, and the mechanical Technic systems debuted in the late 1970s. In 1998 Lego teamed with M.I.T. to launch the first edition of Mindstorms, which brought together motors, mechanical parts and a simple programming language for the purpose of--what else?--building robots...
...beyond the specific genital characteristics. The heavier musculature of the male, she admits, is biological in origin but culturally encouraged through breeding, diet and exercise. In any case, she says, physical strength is not a factor in political relations, because "civilization has always been able to substitute other methods (technic, weaponry, knowledge) for those of physical strength...
...radio broadcasts and newsreels, yet, withal, keeping their minds open in case anyone should mention art." Tony Galento, twice licked by a fighter whose first name was Art, managed after 80 minutes' rehearsal to garble the following prepared opinion: "The perspective is distorted and the subordination of technic to composition is indubitably fatuous." The event was an acknowledged knockout for the editors of Click, who arranged...
...about 30,000 workers turn out $150,000,000 worth of munitions and pyrotechnic devices yearly. The biggest fireworks manufacturer, Un excelled Manufacturing Co., reported a gross profit of $900,000 (net $188,000) for last year, compared to a 1939 deficit of $44,000. But normally much pyro technic-making is done by small shoe string operators, and they are getting their cut of war work...
...serious regret of Mencken's life is that he was not well taught in music. "Lady music teachers . . . wrecked my technic and debauched my taste." He still likes to pound the piano but, "born with an intense distaste for vocal music ... to this day think of even the most gifted Wagnerian soprano as no more than a blimp fitted with a calliope." As for Karl Czerny, standard nightmare of every child's piano lessons: "So late as 1930, being in Vienna, I visited and desecrated his grave...