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...slight Daffy Duck lisp comes and goes, and provides an affecting touch of vulnerability. He works the audience, improvising. On some occasions he will begin slowly, reading straight from a prepared typescript. But then, eager to give his measured words emphasis, he starts his right hand stirring the air in tight counterclockwise loops. And before long, like one of his new turbocharged cars, he revs up and zooms off, quoting himself, zigzagging between '60s idiom ("flip out," "bummer") and mild profanity, tossing away irreverent asides like empty beer cans. Hyperbole comes naturally, and repeatedly: to the analysts in Detroit...
...called The Tenth Man had been unearthed from the archives of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He remembered working under contract to MGM back in 1944 and thought he might have written a brief scenario of a story that could, conceivably, have borne that title. But when the discovered typescript was sent to him, as Greene notes in an introduction, he was astonished: "It proved to be not two pages of outline but a complete short novel of about 30,000 words. What surprised and aggravated me most of all was that I found this forgotten story very readable...
...Moscow Circles sold out fast, since it came out in only one copy." However, tongue-in-check, this statement reveals much grim truth about present official Soviet culture. Moscow Circles is a product of the samizdar (from sam--"self" and izdatel' stvo--"publishing"), whereby unpublishable novels circulate clandestinely in typescript copies. Appearing in this form in the Soviet Union in the late 1960s, it eventually made its way abroad, and became a best-seller in France and Italy...
...answer to the first question, then-Can a machine think?-is yes and no. A computer can certainly do some of the above. It can (or will soon be able to) transmit and receive messages, "read" typescript, recognize voices, shapes and patterns, retain facts, send reminders, "talk" or mimic speech, adjust, correct, strategize, make decisions, translate languages. And; of course, it can calculate, that being its specialty. Yet there are hundreds of kinds of thinking that computers cannot come close to. And for those merely intent on regarding the relationship of man to machine as a head-to-artificial-head...
...enormous pressures. Truman often had second, more prudent thoughts about what he called his "spasms." Sometimes he would scribble furiously and then stuff the result into his desk while he cooled off; on other occasions, he dictated blisterers to Rose Conway, his longtime personal secretary, and then returned the typescript with a diplomatic directive: "Rose, file it. H.S.T." In either case, he left behind a trail of entertaining and often fascinating documents, a short history of the frustrations of power, written at white heat...