Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...characters are not copies of people but metaphors on man. They talk their heads off in cartwheeling leaps of language which in a drawing room or on a radio program would probably shatter the bric-a-brac or the microphone. But they are real: they reveal, almost with each line spoken, something of the perpetually mysterious character of human.nature; their laughter and their tears ring true; the theatricality of their action, the preposterousness of their language seem, after a while, quite as natural as a lesser theatricality, a lesser preposterousness...
Corp. asked Hoyle to give a series of talks about "The New Cosmology" on the BBC's Third Program, aimed at some 300,000 highbrow listeners. In spite of the difficulty of his subject, Hoyle made an extraordinary hit. Audience approval, measured by BBC's sampling system, gave him a record-breaking rating. When the lectures were repeated on the Home Service for 3,000,000 listeners, the middlebrows liked them too. Published in book form, they have sold 60,000 copies, phenomenal for a scientific work...
...Roman Emperor (245-313 A.D.) who issued an edict fixing prices of such things as cereals, wines, meat, fruits, vegetables, leather, timber, carpets and clothing. Punishment for overcharging: death or deportation. Fate of Diocletian's program: utter failure...
...program will include "string Quintet in O major," "Clarinet Trio in E flat major," "Fantasy and Variations for Piano, four hands," and "Piano Quartet in E flat major...
...hundred eighty one students took advantage of the School's lending program during the past year...