Word: brutes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Hitler tried to portray his early years as serene, Langer postulated from Hitler's character and writings that his father must have been a drunken, menacing brute. (Interviews in the 1950s with neighbors of the Hitler family substantiated this professional hunch, Historian Waite reports.) Because children view the universe in the light of their home experience, Hitler probably saw the whole world as "extremely dangerous, uncertain and unjust." This was the origin of his sense of powerlessness...
Think of it, by 4 p.m. today the college football championships of eight States could be in the hands of the Ivy League. What a feeling, brute power. And just 10 years ago who would have thought this possible? Blackman never saw it coming. Just the thought of it is exhilarating. Like getting an "A" in your English 172 journal after spending the night before paraphrasing the book jacket of Giants in the Earth...
...former Attorney General wanted to clear up some unfinished business. For one thing, "I want to be sure my side is revealed in that people know I'm not sitting here a mental case or an alcoholic," she told another reporter. Martha also wanted to identify the brute who had ripped the phone from the wall of her California hotel room last June just as she started to answer a question about the Watergate bugging. He was Steve King, her bodyguard, she said. Since then King has been promoted to security director of the Committee for the Re-Election...
James Gillogly, programmer of Tech and a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon, regarded the game as a contest between brute force and intelligence. His program is extremely simple and was developed in about six months, which is relatively quick. Gillogly believes that the pure technological approach to chess programming, which involves few strategic ideas, can serve "as a baseline against which more sophisticated programs can be compared, thereby determining whether the development of a complex program is worth the effort...
DELILLO'S NOVEL operates through deadpan-absurdist humor, and brute suspense. Names, conversations, non-sequitur events become progressively more other-worldly (sub-rather than sur-real) and the concatenations of bewildering vignettes are glued together only by the reader's curiosity. But all the while, DeLillo demonstrates his golden ear for the tin and tinsel of Americanese, and many of his dialogues skewer perfectly the soft spots in academic double-talk, adolescent vagueness, the jargon of nuclear warfare (as in Herman Kahn's own book of the dead. On Thermonuclear War), public relations yes-speak, and the excruciatingly serious military...