Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard doesn't plan to make its contribution in the engineering side of computers," Marcus R. Van Baalen, a manager of data systems in the Office for Information Technology, said, adding, "Instead, we will make our move in the human factor side which is now in the dark ages...
Giving the computer the ability to communicate in the language of the user instead of that of the machine and improving computer displays are the two anticipated improvements, Van Baalen said, adding. "Who's in charge here anyway? We should not be slaves to the computers--they should be our servants...
...however, Harvard will leave the engineering of the new technologies to other schools like MIT and Stanford, which have done more work in the computer field than Harvard, according to Van Baalen. "We'll wait for [them] to build a better computer terminal and then we'll buy it off the shelf," he said...
...Politburo, however, remains dominated by septuagenarians, some of them ailing; Premier Pham Van Dong is 77, while Secretary General Le Duan just turned 76. The Vietnamese Communist Party, which has 1.7 million members, is divided and confused. There is no clear doctrine on topics ranging from farming collectives to foreign relations. Visitors to Hanoi now hear the government bitterly criticized, with the most pointed complaints coming from cadres. Some government workers are so desperate that they even approach foreigners on the street and offer to change money illegally, at the rate of 75 dong to $1, vs. the official rate...
...Eden-as-Property. The enameled lawns and bulky cows, the relaxed zigzag of planes leading the eye toward the pink villa, the swans and fishermen riding on a serene sheet of water stitched with silver light: this is the epitome of civilized landscape. Like the best work of Jacob van Ruisdael, the 17th century Dutchman whom Constable considered a master of "natural" vision, Wivenhoe Park manages to be both real and ideal; it is a powerful (though subdued) instrument of fantasy as well as an exact rendition of General Rebow's family seat...