Word: screens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time being, though, the United States has the most excellently crafted technocracy of them all. Long removed from political controversy (the think-tanks and universities work for every administration), it has consolidated its power behind a fantastic screen of hypocrisy and cant. Roszak sums it up well enough...
...bosses wouldn't let them turn on the sound, so they watched the festivities on a silent screen: Nixon flapping his arms around like a man possessed, the three astronauts inside their glass cage on board the ship, grinning like monkeys in a wonderfully exotic...
...students separately enter a room and take facing seats at a table. But neither knows the other is there; an opaque screen three feet high stands between them, obscuring the view. All that each student has been told is that he will meet someone and be expected to carry on a conversation with him. All that is known about the students, as the result of previous psychological testing, is that one is more dominant a personality than the other. Abruptly, the screen is lifted, and the students confront each other across the table. Will the dominant or the submissive...
...attempts at a Peruvian dialect occasionally make him sound like one. His performance is unabashed camp, consisting about equally of ego, bluff and plain old Spam. It is obvious that he has not had so much fun since he spent all that time over in the corner of the screen sneering at the kids in The Sound of Music...
...major observatories of the next ten years will be connected with the manned space program," Reeves said. An astronaut will sit in front of a television screen equipped with a set of cross-hairs. As he watches the sun on the screen, he will aim the cross-hairs at any areas that seem interesting, and the cross-hairs will electronically aim a telescope located outside the orbiting space station. This ability to follow sunspots, active regions, and other events immediately will be a great improvement over the present generation of automated telescopes which must be programmed a day ahead...