Word: analogy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOONER OR LATER, someone will term The April Fools the adult analog of The Graduate. Someone probably already has. It is a grossly unfair comparison. Perhaps not as fine a film, dramatically,The April Fools tells a much better tale...
Whatever it is, the choice has been made, and there's really no turning back. And I don't really know just why I'm sad that it must be as it will be. Maybe I'm just a romantic; maybe I only want to see the space-pilot analog to Ivanhoe; maybe I love the dreams of my childhood too much. There's just no telling. The only certain thing is that--whether we go to Mars or not--the choice has been made. You can see it in our literature; you can see it reflected in the increasing...
...however, is still only a tiny first step. It is becoming more apparent that the world needs an international analog to the Federal Reserve System--and hang the political problem of selecting the men who will adminster it. But that sort of fundamental change will come about only after a crisis comparable to the international collapse of the '30's. God only knows (and, given the habits of European bankers, He's probably left guessing, too) how many more monetary crises like this one must come and go, and which currencies will be hit, before that happens...
...first robot in literature was the Golem, a clay man made by the High Rabbi Lev Ben Bezalel of Prague in the 16th century. Animated by a slip of paper bearing the name of God, it murdered the Rabbi when he made it work on the Sabbath. The Biblical analog is the Tower of Babel, the presumptuous construction that called down God's wrath on man. But the Golem and the Tower of Babel are myths. Computers are real...
...class for the past five years has been participating in a similar undergraduate program of independent investigations. Interdisciplinary in nature and uninhibited in choice, the projects have ranged from analysis and measurements of stresses in hydrofoil struts to operations research in man-machine relationships, from the design of an analog-to-digital converter to the development of statistical predictors of academic success; from feasibility studies of nuclear power plants for isolated loran stations to the synthesis of a steady-state parametric amplifier...