Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Learning is basic in the development of human intelligence. But the big, simple-minded computers of today are much like newborn infants, limited permanently to the abilities with which they were born. To develop as a human brain does, a machine should be able to absorb information, turn it into organized experience and act upon it with ever-increasing effectiveness...
...Oedipus-uncomplex Hamlet, so drawn to his mother that he hated his father, so identified with the lover's role that to kill his stepfather would be to kill himself. Truth tumbles out in a climactic modern Closet Scene, but consequences take a therapeutic rather than tragic turn...
...Shakespeare than for how much it puts in of Freud. Plainly, Hamlet was made for Freud, but popular Freudianism much less so for Hamlet. To put all its neuroses in one bedstead is to rob a character of his tangled richness, a story of its resonant depths, and to turn what T.S. Eliot called "the Mona Lisa of literature" into a simple blueprint. And by adhering to such things as soliloquies and ghosts, Cue for Passion never quite goes its own way either. It ingeniously makes drunkenness an excuse for soliloquizing and a basis for seeing ghosts; but where Shakespeare...
...costs, Romney consolidated field organization, factories and production, kept model changes at a minimum. He pushed Rambler's break-even point down to a low 120,000 cars a year. Now, he is doing the same thing with the Kelvinator appliance division, which is about to turn the corner. In a year he paid off bank debts...
...decline extended into the next day, but its pace slowed considerably. The sell-off did not alarm most market experts, who chalked it up to a long-awaited technical correction after the long climb. They were confident that the market would turn about quickly-and they were right...