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...scorn of which I sailed to find...
...courageous and risky decision, for he had two children by this time, and the choice drew opposition and scorn from friends and family. Many years later he wrote Felix Frankfurter, "I think I was made to suffer as acutely over my decision to quit the law for poetry as it possible to make a man suffer over any decision it is that I gave up a career as a first-rate lawyer to become a third-rate poet...
...about GPAs and job applications but who would much rather discuss their hobbies of studying Eastern philosophy, writing short stories, or playing a mean bass guitar. I also remain deeply respectful of those who single-mindedly struggle toward true expertise in biology, computer science or Chinese. Deserving encouragement, not scorn, for their concentrated labors, these are the people most likely to make the concrete changes in the world that will benefit the rest of us history and English majors...
...such prophecies, M.I.T. Computer Professor Joseph Weizenbaum has answers ranging from disapproval to scorn. He has insisted that "giving children computers to play with ... cannot touch ... any real problem," and he has described the new computer generation as "bright young men of disheveled appearance [playing out] megalomaniacal fantasies of omnipotence...
...Herrs adopted Jimmy and his brother Raymond, 19, as toddlers, adding to three daughters of their own. Obedient as a child, the adolescent Jimmy came to scorn the Herrs' religious habits. After police picked him up several times on burglary charges, he was sent to a Mennonite-run youth village for three years. Back home at 16, he dropped out of high school, rented an apartment and took a job as a dishwasher. He later joined the Army but deserted after a few months. One friend said Jimmy was bored and frustrated by the confining atmosphere of the Amish...