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...move came as part of a major company reorganization. John Sculley, Apple's chief executive and president whom Jobs hired in 1983 from PepsiCo, announced the realignment of the company (fiscal 1984 sales: $1.5 billion). Jobs will remain chairman but will leave day-to-day management and assume a hazier role as the top idea...
Milkman's discovery of his own path to freedom is slightly less compelling, but only because in his case Morrison leaves the city community she has drawn so clearly for a hazier south. Milkman has gone off to find the source of his grandfather's strength, and somehow in the process reality turns to metaphor. The change is somehow not quite satisfying; where other characters have been in-comprehensible at first, gradually gaining clarity, Milkman moves from the understandable to the obstruse. When he finally stands up, facing death at the hands of his former friend, he has found...
...memories to come by--that is, the easiest literary memories to come by (for who is so displeased with him- or herself at 20 that he or she won't be happy to tell anyone who will listen about it 15 years later?), there lies another level of recollection: hazier, more mist here, less lyricism, less control over one's past self...
...reformatory. Shortly after birth he was placed in a state hospital for 14 years. During this period, he may have enjoyed, or rather suffered, a few months of freedom, and may even have spent some time with his maternal grandparents. Between 14 and 19, the record is even hazier; Bobbie's story is that he was in one institution or another. What is clear is that ever since 19 he has made sure he stayed in jail...
Then we moved on to hazier ground. Is a student on strike for the four demands if he petitions or leaflets against the war without giving a thought to political repression, university complicity, or the right of striking workers to receive pay? We weren't sure. But we concluded that we had enough evidence of the spectrum of intentions of the so-called striking community to ignore the contradictory legislation of the mass meetings and still consider ourselves a steering committee of those who were determined to fight for the four demands-and "demand" means fight-that were our basis...