Alan Turing, the British mathematician and computer pioneer who was born 100 years ago this month, showed that even a simple routine or set of instructions left to run endlessly can produce complex results.
An unfinished rough draft of another of the cycle plays, More Stately Mansions, was published in 1964 and produced three years later on Broadway, in spite of written instructions left by O'Neill that the incomplete manuscript be destroyed after his death.
An expansion of priorities for math and reading instruction leaves little time for anything else.
Jarnach's ending, dashed off for "Doktor Faust's" first performance in 1925, makes no use of detailed musical instructions left by the dying composer.
Harrington's effort finished short of the flag, as per the captain's instruction, leaving McGinley a long putt.
When Ms. Quinn, on video, accompanied the live dancing of Ms. Fenley by reciting movement instructions — left, right, forward, back — as if they were a ruminative soliloquy, the combination was stronger, yet the text and choreography generally slipped past each other.
Now repeat the instructions left to right.
This is not my reason, thanks to my husband, my parents, several neighbors, a wonderful baby sitter, and the list of instructions I left for each of them, cross-referencing the boys' every want, need and activity.
One other participant was excluded because he/she failed to comply with the instructions, leaving a total of 416 participants.
