Word: forms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Laurents' play substitutes beach-house manners for country-house ones; it speaks a livelier lingo in a much less melodramatic voice, and its Mrs. Grundy sports a Southern accent. But even Laurents' "The weak shall inherit the earth" echoes A Woman's famous "The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong." And where Wilde was almost the last user of the classic aside, Laurents has adopted its chic, flip descendant, the crack or comment flung straight at the audience...
...best measure of the condition of steel? Many steelmen and economists do not think so. Said A. S. Glossbrenner, President of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.: "The use of capacity figures has hurt the economy of the whole country, as well as that of the steel industry. Some other form of measurement should be substituted." Percentage of capacity does not reflect the fact that capacity has constantly risen for the past 12 years. Thus, this year's operating rates, since they are figured on a higher capacity base (which is adjusted every Jan. 1), actually represent more tons of steel...
...world of office automation, one of the prime problems has been the fact that not all machines talk the same language. The information from computers, in the form of magnetic tape, punched cards or punched paper tape, must be translated for use by less sophisticated machines. The language of the simpler machines, in turn, has to be translated into a form that computers can use. Also, a computer talking in punched cards cannot talk to a computer operating with I magnetic tape, unless the punched-card information is first put on tape, often a lengthy, expensive process. Last week Long...
...tragedy." Critics who believe that Greek sculptors were trying to achieve representational realism earn Malraux's ire. "Humanized but not human," a figure like the Winged Victory of Samothrace is no mere woman to Malraux, but an evocation of that "spark of the divine immanent in every form of life...
Forced into playing defensively, the Crimson had few chances to score. The Harvard players showed good individual tackling form but were unable to prevent frequent large Princeton gains...