Three actors. One desk. Three chairs. Theatre at its most elemental. "Seven Interviews" offers up seven different short plays, each with an interview format, and each of which illuminates some aspect of the human condition. The seven pieces range from the broadly comic to the achingly tragic. Among the situations set up in the seven pieces are a job interview to replace a secretary who is giving her employer nightmares, a biographer's horrible realization that she doesn't know her subject at all, the matter of a baseball team mascot who is frightening children at the ballpark, a dialogue...

Modeling of weakly nonlinear systems by means of Volterra series analysis is presented. Necessary conditions for representing nonlinearities by a Volterra series are developed analytically as well as heuristically. A two-condition convergence criterion for Volterra series and a method for determining Volterra transfer functions are established. For systems with multiple nodes, an extension of Volterra series analysis; method of nonlinear currents is developed and applied to a MESFET amplifier. Finally, methods of quantifying nonlinear behavior are discussed.

The 1950s television game show was a cultural fundamental for the decade, reflecting the zeitgeist of a flourishing modern nation. The author explores the iconography of the mid-century U.S. in the context of TV watching, game playing and prize winning--and collective self-examination. The scandals that marred the genre's reputation are revisited, highlighting American's propensity for both gullibility and winking cynicism.