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...SECOND thread to our story begins at M.I.T. in the late fifties, where the revolution in computer technology was just getting underway. The great breakthrough that was being made at this time was in the development of computer programming techniques that allowed several different people to work on different tasks on a single computer simultaneously. The development of such "time-sharing" systems enormously improved the efficiency and usefulness of computers, and in 1963 ARPA agreed to fund a project which was intended to develop the full potentialities of the new time- sharing technology. This program (Project MAC) developed over several...
...tragedy at Chappaquiddick also struck many as more supposition than substance. The columnist wrote that Kennedy at first persuaded his cousin Joseph Gargan to take the blame for Mary Jo Kopechne's death, then changed his mind during the night. Anderson insists that he pried the information, thread by thread, from Kennedy intimates...
...joke. She is a simple, lost, physical girl still in her teens, with no past herself and, so far, little sign of a future. Julian has a wife, not a bad woman or a good one, but disease has pared away his talent for complication; he can no longer thread through the subtle caterings and cozenings of marriage. So, when death comes, it seems to strike a just and dreary balance...
...analogies between male bonds and sexual attraction. To him, initiation into all-male groups like fraternities resembles courtship: neophytes are wooed and chosen with the same meticulous care as mates. Investiture into a masculine order-an army unit or the Masons-is like marriage, which explains in part the thread that binds the warrior to his buddy. At its least edifying, says Tiger, the male bond unites homosexuals-men whose "eagerness to attract other males may as clearly betray a craving for male bonds as a confusion about sexual identity and the desire to be female...
...YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a tribute to the late Lorraine Hansberry put together from her own writings. An able interracial cast presents sketches that thread an elegiac mood ranging through comedy, rage and introspection...