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Literary Data Processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

S. M. Parrish
S. M. Parrish*
Affiliation:
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
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When C. P. Snow delivered his famous Rede Lecture at Cambridge in 1959, “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution,” few of us who were present in the Senate House foresaw the acclaim his paper was going to receive. I remember measuring its reception from the assembled company of good gray dons and a few visitors as cool, if not hostile, but the commonplaces that Lord Snow uttered that day were uttered with a pungency and timeliness and force that made them seem fresh, and we have come to look upon them as one of the most penetrating diagnoses of our age that has yet been made.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 80 , Issue 4-Part2 , September 1965 , pp. 3 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1965

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* This paper is a slightly modified version of the “Summary” delivered at the close of a three-day conference held under the auspices of the IBM Corporation at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, in September 1964. Complete Proceedings of the conference are available from the MLA Materials Center.

1 Their findings were published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, lviii (June 1963), 275–309.

2 Terms used in Mrs. Sedelow's paper, “Some Parameters for Computational Stylistics.”