Word: learnedness
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The talent would have been in the blood; it could not have been learned. Welch's schooling was so desultory that at the age of nine he was still unable to read. When he was 20, better educated but still without focus, he was struck by a car as he...
Such spectacles as these, suggesting the start of a full-blown trend, just might put a tiny chink in the razor business and a serious crimp in Kiam's sunny sales pitch, not to mention his syntax. "Is Don Johnson of the prehistoric cavemen who didn't know how to...
Buckley has since abandoned the Heathkit. Aside from the seagoing Epson, he has four Kaypro portables, two IBM PCs (an AT and an XT), and a TeleVideo terminal. The IBM AT, which he keeps at his home in Connecticut, is able to store an entire novel in its customized internal...
To many, Buckley is a brilliant thinker, speaker and writer. To others, he is a pitiless, pedantic, pretentious piercer of bleeding hearts. To me he is all these and more. Now that I have learned of his enthusiasm for computers, I consider him a secret blood brother. Richard H. Gramann...
Deng's increasingly leftist ideas quickly brought him into contact with radical politics. Like many other Chinese students in France, he joined the French Communist Party, where he learned basic Marxist theory as well as the Internationale. (The Chinese Communist Party was not founded until 1921.) Later, as a member...