Word: kurt
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...hunger. Some experts see analogous dangers in the robot revolution. If robots can do men's work faster, better and more cheaply, then what will men do? They will be retrained for other things, the robotmakers answer. But by whom, and for what? Almost 20 years ago, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano portrayed a future society in which the elite few run the machines while the unemployable majority subsists on handouts in resentful idleness. "It's an enormous problem," concedes Luigi Lazzaroni, president of the Italian firm that makes the Pragma robot. "Many will have to learn...
...feeling that traditional art had somehow failed to reach modern man. The Dadaists sought new modes of expression that would make art relevant to life. Taking this idea literally, they introduced everyday objects and materials into art. Duchamp created "readymade" sculptures using old urinals, bicycles and other assorted junk. Kurt Schwitters invented the term "merz" for his art, defined as a "fusion of all conceivable materials for artistic purposes." Collage and photomontage became chief modes of expression...
Bani-Sadr met with U.N. Secretary Kurt Waldheim's personal envoy, Olof Palme, who expressed U.N. concern over the consequences of continued warfare. Palme will also visit the war zone today, the Iranian news agency said yesterday...
...crimes were "incomparable in history," thundered Khomeini, and there could be no compromise until the Iraqi leader "repents and says 'I have become a Muslim.' " Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi, meanwhile, spelled out his country's tough position in a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The war had begun, he asserted, when Iran had shelled Iraqi border posts on Sept...
Replacing such animals, at a time when they are increasingly endangered in the wild, is almost impossible. Says Pathologist Kurt Benirschke, the San Diego Zoo's director of research: "Five years ago, if a tiger died, you paid $2,000 and bought a new one. You can't do that any more." So zoos find themselves assuming a new responsibility. Besides exhibiting animals, they must keep ailing ones like...