Word: accordin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes his learning where he finds it, slowly works out a philosophy ("Never Make an Offer. Budge only for Folding Money"). But he is no cynic, and he cross-questions would-be disillusioners sharply: "Now accordin' to you the newspapers ain't reliable. Is The Times lies? But if it's gonna lie anyway, why is it so borin'?" At eleven, Horatio knew "the local civics of the vice squad ... In architecture, how to make time bombs; in interpersonal relations, how to make zip guns ... In philosophy he knew that the Future Lies Ahead...
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