Word: horowitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observers were shocked, but Horowitz showed no surprise. He didn't know how much arsenic was dangerous, but he had heard that many orchards used an insecticide of arsenic and oil that could easily be washed off. The results would be good cocktail party conversation but little more, and Horowitz was already losing interest. He had a new idea...
...graduate students looked at each other and smiled, and suddenly they didn't seem as hurried. Blood was just as mundane as the other samples Horowitz had analyzed that morning--Gainesburger, vitamins, chicken bullion and maple syrup. But they had remembered how much they liked Horowitz and his bursts of enthusiasm that sometimes went beyond "real physics," and they were pleased that his microscope was working so well...
...Horowitz doesn't like that word. He knows his intelligence--and particularly his ability with electronics--sets him apart and increases expectations of him, but these vocational hazards of brilliance don't bother him. Like most geniuses, he doesn't mind being one--he just doesn't like being called one. It embarasses...
Nevertheless, people have been calling Horowitz a genius--a boy genius, to be exact--since he was seven, and gurgled over the air in Morse Code, the youngest ham radio operator in the country. The talk continued as Horowitz went through Summit High School in New Jersey and Harvard, building gadgets in his free time like refrigerators with no moving parts and advanced telescopes. And when he began dating a tall blond nursing student named Carol Grodzins a few years ago, colleagues often approached her at parties and whispered, as if sharing a delicate secret, "Paul is such a genius...
Some of the whispering has died away as Horowitz has settled down. He married Grodzins two years ago, and she says that since he got tenure this year, fewer people pull her aside to murmur their awe. Horowitz generates less commotion just because he will probably be around Harvard for a long time...