Word: reals
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Then she went to a Westinghouse plant in Bloomfield, N.J., and the Faichney thermometer factory, owned by Chesebrough-Pond, Inc., in Watertown, N.Y., to get a close look at the real things. In Watertown, Hopkins watched a shiny, beige Unimate Mark II robot perform a number of "unexpected and puzzling tasks" done previously by humans. "Now I realize that robots are not at all human-like but are still very impressive, even awesome in their own way," says Hopkins. Concludes Redman: "I am reassured by the fact that it will be many years before robots can replace journalists...
Though the Agrarians mostly remained farmers of the typewriter in real life, on paper they kept insisting that "the culture of the soil is the best and most sensitive of vocations." Tate was one of the few to own, briefly, a genuine farm, Ben's Folly, honestly named for the brother who financed it. A hired hand delivered the final word on Farmer Tate: "Mr. Tate, he ain't much of a hand with...
...Agrarians were to farming what pastoral poetry is to real sheep, and Agrarianism was simply the flag under which they marched against the forces of modernity. In 1930, as they sniffed the first whiff of smog at their writing desks in a university founded on the wealth of a New York railroad baron, the essayists of I'll Take My Stand shared, as Warren put it, a "dire suspicion" "that a great commonwealth has gone wrong." The enemy was industrialism, which they characterized as "an evil dispensation" and "a pizen snake." The issue was an intensely personal matter, almost...
...after almost seven years of work, a second treaty of the same type. Along with quantitative, this treaty sets qualitative limits to the effort of the sides in the military sphere. The system of SALT treaties has brought the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. to a point beyond which real disarmament, the actual reduction of military confrontation levels, begins...
...smirking face of his servant, and we only hear the man mount and gallop off. The vigorous sound-track, in fact, gives us amplified, overly heroic sounds--thundering hoofbeats, ringing shots, and a lush score by Shinichiro Ikebe that frequently reminds one of Star Wars--but with real feeling underneath the poses...