Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issued a modest proposal to fill a hole in undergraduate instruction, revitalizing house education at the same time. Each house should get a typewriter-sized computer console, Mosteller's committee recommended. It would be available from 8 to 12, seven nights a week, and students could dash downstairs to use the computer for physics problems or for homework in the new computer courses made possible by the new machinery...
THIS recommendation nettles humanists who argue that the computer use is like a trip to Florence for a Fine Arts student or a visit to the archives in Washington by a government concentrator-a luxury which ought to come out of the student's pocket, not Faculty of Arts and Sciences funds. It could be argued that computers are becoming a necessity like libraries, but Mosteller prefers not to. "Argument by analogy usually gets one into trouble," he says, dismissing the question with a quiet smile...
...Brahms was even more impressive. From the very beginning of the great Fourth Symphony, the conductor proved himself a master of nuance, varying his tempos flexibly. The tragic Andante moderato, with its famous Phrygian modality, was a gem. Opening furiously, the third movement, Allegro giocoso, joked only in its use of the triangle. The concluding Passacaglia, Allegro energico e passionato, was just that...
...piece to be played with as much delicacy and sentiment as power and assertion. Except for one bar specifically marked "Lyrically," all that emerged from the piano Friday night was forceful, if controlled, declamation. The delicious orchestration, the fascinating, semi-indeterminate transition between the two movements, and the exquisite use of the celeste to close the composition could not compensate for the solid but harsh interpretation of the soloist...
...reckon with the bureaucratic mentality. Dr.Blaine and some administrators are "alarmed" at the decline of 6.4% in their trade. Is the really successful health service to aim at a 20% per year growth rate to keep up the GNP? Perhaps the health service psychiatrists and their administrative cohorts could use some of that increased leisure to think about the charges that the students are making against the adult society which they and the University represent. Howard M. Feinstein...