Word: nut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Often the speech is canceled--Shockley says this has happened about a dozen times in the last few years. And if it goes on, students protest, reporters write him off as a nut, and his audiences are always hostile. He always speaks in the Northeast or on the West Coast, and never has any visible support. Students burn him in effigy, academics condemn him, blacks hate him, and his own university, Stanford, won't let him teach genetics...
Shockley could, if he had picked a different cause, have been just an amusing nut. All of his crazy side effects--the incessant tape-recording, the impromptu I.Q. tests given over the phone--might have been funny. But because of his racism, he has to be seen in a far different light. He's not harmless. He's not just "controversial" or "provoking". He is, instead, a destructive force who should not be lent respectability by colleges and television stations that allow him to speak. His Nobel prize and pseudo-scientific trappings don't make him any different from...
...Some people may think I'm a nut for this," Tierney said, "but I'm happily married and when I was single I did all right...
...Kalmbach family moved to Pasadena from Michigan (his father had died) when Herb was a young teenager. Frank Clement, who became his best schoolboy friend, remembers the newcomer as "a free and loose kid, an absolute nut . . . with the guts of a burglar." Of Germanic origins, Kalmbach was a fleeting, childish admirer of Hitler before World War II broke out, writing some stories about the Reich in the school paper. Remarkably, he was one of four finalists in a design competition for an airplane de-icer that the U.S. needed, even though, recalls Clement, he was only...
Even that inveterate worshiper of statistics, the classic baseball nut, might not recall that all those records are held by the same man: Henry Aaron of the Atlanta Braves. But this season no fan needs a record book to realize that Hammerin' Hank is threatening to break the most glamorous mark in sports, the 714 home runs hit by Babe Ruth...