Word: clive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clive Sinclair: Small Is Beautiful
...Ever since he was a youngster in England, Clive Sinclair, 42, has had big thoughts about little things. At twelve, he built small mechanical calculators. At 22, after a brief stint as a science writer and editor specializing in home electronics, Sinclair and his wife Anne set up a mail order house selling transistors and later kits for miniradios no bigger than match boxes. In the 1970s he made one of the earliest pocket calculators with advanced mathematical functions, designed a pioneering, inexpensive digital wristwatch, and introduced a tiny TV with a 2-in. screen. Ahead of their time, none...
...Poirier plays an impeccably bland mom. Douglas Faigel does a very lovely pretty boy as Jimmy's friend Kurtis. Susan Damplo provides a sharp-tongued fall to Jimmy as his sister Millicent and David Fruloll's expressive eyes make up or his less-than convincing stoop as the servant Clive...
...habit of applauding is responsible for another phenomenon peculiar to Harvard hissing. This one, Thernstrom reflects gives proceedings "a slight element of spice." While most professors share Thernstrom's benevolent acceptance of good natured hissing. "If one tells a bad pun, one deserves to be hissed," John L. Clive, Kenan Professor of History and Literature asserts many students feel hissing has no place in the lecture hall. "It's very disruptive," says Tracy Rouse. "Students hiss down questions if they don't like them like this morning in Chem...
While it remains difficult to evaluate the mindset of an unapplauded lecturer, it's fairly easy to gauge how applause receivers feel. "No one who is honest about it," Clive says, "dislikes the applause." And freshmen seem prepared to continue this unique Harvard tradition. "It's like tipping," Gruber says. "If the waiter serves real slowly, you're still going to tip 15 percent...