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...meeting hackers I said to myself, 'Gee, here are people who are interested in something.' I was unhappy here until I started hanging around hackers." Hangers-on are tolerated if they know their place; poseurs who spout hacker phrases but know nothing about computers are regarded with contempt. Says Wholey: "You learn to avoid those people. They have nothing...
...word genius is good for starting arguments but bad for book titles, unless the books are about Mozart. To insist that Film Director Alfred Hitchcock possessed this incandescence is simply to ensure a lot of windy exception taking. Yes, he was devilishly clever, but was there not a crippling contempt for human emotions and possibly for film making in his mechanical manipulation of viewers...
...Contempt for Local Areas. When newspapers and TV stations are chain-owned, as most of them now are, local business, political and cultural leaders "feel alienated, left out." Chains are regarded as the news equivalents of fast-food joints. "Everything is fried in the same batter, a batter packaged in New York or Los Angeles and shipped in." (For Jones, the point is "delicate"; his paper was sold in 1977 to the New York City-based Capital Cities Communications...
Neither the protest nor the Harvard Jewish Law Students Association have held academic freedom in contempt as one of the Third World Coalition sponsors stated. The rally in no way intended to prevent Rachman from speaking. The HULSA made it abundantly clear in their information sheets and at the rally. Neither the noise made outside be inside abridged academic freedom. If anything, Rachman's speech was an affront to intellectual integrity...
...claiming that one of the panelists was biased against him, and insisted on being in a separate studio from Washington during another broadcast. "He thinks he's in South Africa," chided Washington. On election night Epton raged to a television interviewer that some Chicago reporters were "slime, beneath contempt." He was particularly bitter that blacks, who always backed him for the state legislature, had turned against him in the mayor's race. "I will certainly save a lot of money in the future on charitable causes," he said. When he stalked from his suite without delivering a concession...