Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer Dirksen gave the President his approval of the appointment. But as opposition to Fortas swelled-22 of the Senate's 37 Republicans are now against him-Dirksen's leadership has grown shaky, and he is not unmindful that as a rambunctious Congressman in 1965, Griffin helped turn aging Charles Halleck out of the House minority leadership...
...disturbers from repressions worse than any that he would impose on them. His implication is clear: only his victory can placate the New Right sufficiently to prevent vigilante action. This artful threat of ever more taut confrontation carries with it the prospect of still more violence, which in turn could lead to curtailment of traditional civil liberties. Some hard-core rebels of the farthest left would welcome exactly that. They reason that the resulting disorder could only weaken the system that they seek to overturn...
...computer cannot, of course, ensure total domestic tranquillity. One plump freshman complained that her machine-matched roommate "gets cold too easily and wants to turn the heat on." Her thin chum countered that she can't really enjoy eating cookies from home while her friend is on a diet...
...computers create? Maybe not, but many of their programmers have a lot of fun trying to make them behave as if they could. Some technicians feed a set of numbers into the computer which activates a mechanical arm which in turn plots designs on paper. Photographs, too, can be analyzed and stored in a computer's memory, then reorganized and distorted on electronic command. The results are often tantalizing facsimiles of op and pop. In addition, computers can be programmed to direct kinetic sculptures through any number of varied cycles...
Frog to a Phoenix. Visitors are caught up in a carnivalesque March of Progress from the moment they enter. At the door, they find that their bodies have been sighted by an electric eye, which in turn triggers the computer-generated voice that welcomes them in a deep monotone. They may be approached by R.O.S.A. (Radio Operated Simulated Actress) Bosom, a roving electronic robot who actually appeared with live performers in a 1966 London production of The Three Musketeers (R.O.S.A. played the Queen of France...