Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Many members of the 20th Century Week committee felt it was not enough to present a program of seminars punctuated by public panel discussions. There was considerable support for the notion that the program could yield new ideas and widespread discussion of the United States Image...
...take good pictures, but the wide-angle camera balked. There is some chance that it will take better pictures later, or that it can be "repaired" by deft electronic twiddling from stations on earth. Even if it never does function properly, the narrow-angle camera alone will yield valuable weather information. But the scientists who interpret the cloud pictures will have to take special pains to identify the places around the earth that are covered by its Rhode Island-size snapshots...
...Peking's monthly picture magazine China in Spanish, Arabic and French-well printed but unrelievedly self-glorifying. In government offices in Rabat, Red Chinese experts discuss expansion of Morocco's tea production. In West Africa's Guinea, technicians from Peking are helping improve the rice yield. Cuban generals in Havana talk weapons and tactics with Chinese army officers. In backward Yemen, 2,000 Red coolies labor in the sweltering heat on a new highway for the Imam. No longer is Russia the sole voice or representation of Communism to the outside world. China...
...revelation, but with earnest and scholarly equations. His doomsday is the year 2026. In the November 4 Science, Professor von Foerster calculates by elaborate mathematics what will happen if the human species avoids large-scale disaster (e.g., nuclear war), sets up a cooperative world society, develops technical methods that yield an unlimited food supply and continues to increase at an ever-quickening rate as, he says, it has been doing since the time of Christ. The climax will come at a calculable date in the future, which Von Foerster, in mathematical terms, calls to (t sub zero). "For obvious reasons...
Discussing the relationship between life and drama, Bentley asserted that drama begins with an imitation of events, and "seldom forgets the animal part of human nature." Simple imitation of events, however, is a story, and will never yield a plot, for plot is the "arrangement of events...