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...Norse myths. To suggest the painter's impact on his time, Grigson quotes two of Fuseli's contemporaries. "His look is lightning, his word is thunder, his jest death and his vengeance hell," wrote one. "His neighborhood is unbearable." The other, a fellow artist, called him "a monster in design; his women are all strumpets, and his men all banditti, with the action of galvanized frogs [but] no man had the power like Fuseli of arousing the dormant spirit of youth...
Frankenstein Monster? Mathematician Wiener had often said this before, and been pooh-poohed as an alarmist. Last week he was not laughed at. Allen N. Scares, vice president and general manager of Remington Rand, Inc., told of a machine, UNIVAC, manufactured by his company, that can do most of the numerical tasks now performed by flesh & blood clerks. In computing payroll checks, for instance, it "reads" (at 10,000 characters per second) two magnetic tapes with numbers coded on them. One tape carries all the data about each employee: his wage rate, tax status, pension deductions, etc. The other carries...
...many clerks UNIVAC would replace Scares did not say. He was confident that Remington Rand had not created a "Frankenstein [monster] which can turn upon us and wreck the very foundations of our society. History has demonstrated that there is an ultimate good in every new tool . . . The acceptance is gradual as the new tool proves its worth. It has never occurred as a sudden change...
...Admiralty confirmed the story of the minelaying. But the old ties between trade and Admiralty were still strong. An Admiralty spokesman added: "Who are we to say whether there is or is not a real monster in the lake? We certainly don't want to do the hotel people out of their business...
Band director Holmes and his mad musicians were serenading the Brown stands when the bear thumbed his nose at Holmes. "I ordered the monster away, but got no response...