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...screen become a monitor?). They like even more to give new things names that are as mystifying to an outsider as the secret password of an esoteric cult. Thus the computer's two forms of "memory" are known as RAM and ROM. The temporary memory, RAM, meaning "random-access memory," can easily be changed; the permanent memory, ROM, meaning "read-only memory," cannot be modified...
...their complaint, the publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, and a Time Inc. subsidiary, Little, Brown, charge that the faculty members "regularly select" copyrighted material and arrange for the photocopy store to run it off. These "anthologies" become, in effect, student textbooks. The Association of American Publishers, which is financing the suit, concedes that N.Y.U. is not the worst offender. "There is widespread noncompliance in the academic community," says A.A.P. Copyright Director Carol Risher. "But many schools have done more than N.Y.U. to educate their professors about the copyright...
...NUCLEAR DELUSION by George F. Kennan; Pantheon; 208 pages; $13.95 WITH ENOUGH SHOVELS by Robert Scheer; Random House; 285 pages...
...talked the hunches over,/ up and down and through and through./ We argued and we barg-ued!/ We decided what to do." The jingling verse of Hunches in Bunches (Random House; $5.95) could come only from the prescription pad of Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Theodor Geisel). At 78, Geisel retains his unique ability to wrap a concept in clothing. This time he portrays hunches, tempting the indecisive protagonist away from his homework. The good doctor is an eye-and-ear specialist; his infectious rhymes are meant to be read aloud...
...hybrid: part book, part toy. In The Dwindling Party (Random House; $8.95), Edward Gorey's gothic farce matches the designs of his kidnaping bats and boat-swallowing moats. The very young may not get some of the puns at Hickyacket Hall, but the MacFizzet family, who disappear when the readers pull various tabs, provide hours of amusement even for children who have not yet worked their...