Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as Bill Gates pleaded ignorance in court last week of his smoking-gun e-mails, two fresh Microsoft memos mysteriously surfaced that give an inside glimpse into how the software giant responds to new ideas it finds threatening. It isn't a pretty sight. "These memorandums lay naked the assumptions of Microsoft's corporate culture--the insularity, the arrogance, the obsessive drive to control," declares Eric Raymond, the programmer who obtained the files and posted them on his website www.opensource.org...
...root of all hope, ambition anddreams lies an apathetic demon shrouded in ablinding white nothingness. This stale emptinessis unnoticed by the seeing. Eyes allow one tocover oneself in images, to construct oneselfcomfortably out of the things one sees--to blindoneself, in essence, to the true nature ofhumanity. When sight is gone, and the eye isforever turned inward, the horrifying epiphanythat life is white, pure nothing becomes, inBlindness, the deepest horror imaginable
Last night, getting a jump on the weekend, I headed out in pursuit of a party. Sniffing for scents of beer beneath the chimney smoke, I observed a familiar November sight: tuxedoed men walking briskly arm and arm. 'Tis the season of the Great Final Dinners. Yes, it's the time I always await; the final round of punching for the institution of which I am most proud: final clubs. So I made some small talk. I straightened a tie. I offered a stick of gum. And I confirmed that they all had sexy girls coming to meet them after...
...fell in love last year. It was a strange kind of love. With a woman, yes. She lived in Dunster House. I saw her often. Too often. The sight of her made me shudder. Her touch made me cringe. She had a shrill voice--her vowels sounded like the moan of a dolphin, her consonants vaguely like a knife scratching against a china plate...
...with this ease that she launchs into "Tomorrow," beginning the song in a conversational tone that briefly masks her vocal power. After the first bars, Kissinger's voice becomes stronger until her clear voice fills the auditorium completely. This is arguably the best song of the show, and the sight of Kissinger singing alone on the stage, undaunted by the packed house in front of her, is truly impressive...