Word: theoretician
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...first mathematician who could crack its code, figuring that the deciphering could not be done in much less than a million years. To the surprise of all concerned, however, the Stanford scheme sprang a leak this year, putting $100 in the pocket of a determined young Israeli theoretician and raising troublesome, and potentially costly, questions about whether computers can ever be made to keep their secrets...
...real drama may be more offstage than on. Rumors have been circulating that Thus We Will Win was the object of an ideological tug-of-war in the Politburo. Party Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, a hard-liner who died last January, is believed to have done his best to block the production, while Brezhnev Protege Konstantin Chernenko apparently intervened to save the play. As if to dispel any notion that the leadership was divided in its feelings, virtually the entire top rung of the Politburo, including Brezhnev, showed up for a performance early last month. In what may be the start...
Solidarity therefore resolved to overhaul the country's crumbling economic system and to share with the government in running it. "We wanted to make the authorities accountable to society," explained Bronislaw Geremek, Walesa's chief theoretician. As a start, the union decided to attack the corrupt and inefficient nomenklatura system, under which the government chose plant managers not for their skills but for their loyalty to the party. The union's stratagem: force the government to approve a system of self-management for the factories that would allow workers' councils to choose their own managers. Even Walesa was skeptical about...
...just another humanist crying out against the inroads of technology. He knows science well enough to be playful about it. He understands that the weakest link in any theory may be the theoretician. His message is not glum but comic: if a perfect machine ever arose, miraculously, from its imperfect builder, no one would trust...
...there is one international musical figure who can truly be described as protean, it is Pierre Boulez. The former enfant terrible of French composers, who combines a brilliant mathematical mind with an expert musical ear, Boulez has been the chief theoretician of the postwar serialist movement. During his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977, he introduced audiences to unfamiliar repertory by familiar composers like Liszt, and startled them with lucid, penetrating readings of standards like Debussy's La Mer. Under his baton the orchestra reached a level of technical precision that...