Word: thought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ahead in business is to become the protege of a big executive, but the trick is to pick the right one. C. Richard Johnston and Lawrence K. Shinoda thought that they had done so last year when they followed their boss, Semon E. ("Bunkie") Knudsen, from General Motors to Ford, where Knudsen had become president. Three weeks ago, Chairman Henry Ford II fired Knudsen, telling him that "things just didn't work out." Last week Johnston, 44, a top salesman whom Knud sen had made marketing manager of the Lincoln-Mercury division, resigned in protest over the dismissal...
Died. Dr. Warren S. McCulloch, 70, major figure in the field of cybernetics; in Old Lyme, Conn. Multifaceted scientist who embraced the disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry and physiology, McCulloch dedicated his life to explaining the workings of the brain and nervous system, especially the thought-storing process, in terms of physical mechanisms. In 1943 he and the late Walter Pitts theorized that the brain could be described as a computing machine, operating on a mathematically logical basis, and that these principles could also be used in computers-a concept that paved the way for great advances in computer technology...
When they first met for a lunchtime date in Boston, she thought he was short and unimpressive. But she soon noticed that "he became better-looking as he talked, so strongly and convincingly." Coretta Scott soon found, too, that "M. L. King Jr.," as he called himself, made quick decisions. By the end of the date, he had told her that she "had everything I have ever wanted in a wife." As she observes in this fond memoir of their 15 years together, "it was as if he had no time for mistakes, as if he had to make...
Winthrop House Senior Tutor Lance C. Buhl drafted the letter of apology. "Perhapsthis was meant as a joke, but it up-set me." he said. "I thought the House ought not to take it lightly...
Baillie's earlier films give a strong sense of internal progress, of work done, despite their non-dramatic form. Pieces like On Sundays, The Gymnasts, and Have You Ever Thought of Talking to the Director ? are unified by the experiences of a central character, whom Baillie uses to explore oppressive physical realities. His basic themes reach their fullest elaboration in his epic films To Parsifal and Mass, and each succeeding work derives its direction and energy from these two productions. In Quixote. the last of his epics, a barbaric technology proves too overpowering, and the sheer visual weight of double...