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...success as a futurist was based on a supreme confidence in man's worst instincts. For Wells, an atheist, theological good and evil did not exist. Original sin resided in the pinkish gray folds of the brain and expressed itself through brutish linkage, which operated the prehensile thumb. Given tools enough and time, Homo sapiens would turn the most charming toy, the most fetching theory, into a weapon...
...commentator said, Hunt Hall is "a thumb in the eye" of the Yard, then Memorial Hall must be the wart on its nose...
This statement endangered Richardson's confirmation. The Committee questioned the unknown prosecutor's ability to investigate while under Richardson's thumb. The attorney general designate retracted the statement, and promised the prosecutor complete freedom. A few days later, Cox was picked. When he operated as University trouble shooter, he demanded complete autonomy. It is unlikely he would have accepted the Watergate post without a similar guarantee...
Meanwhile, Bok is making no comment pending his meeting with the Faculty Council. But Harold L. Goyette, director of the Planning Office, defended the demolition of Hunt Hall, calling it "a thumb in the eye" of the Yard. Goyette added that the dorm would not overload the north Yard, but instead would provide "a reasonable density...
Rimoin believes that most dwarfs can be helped, physically and mentally. Indeed, he says, even Tom Thumb, the midget exhibited and exploited by Circus Impresario P.T. Barnum, could have achieved near-normal growth had treatment been available 100 years ago. But with that treatment, Rimoin admits, Tom would probably never have become rich and famous...