Word: thurberian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look beyond the gut connotations of identimats to their real, innocent purpose. But there is still something to be said for the gut reaction. The technology involved in the new machines is forbidding in itself--electronic gadgetry scanning your fingers, read and green lights rendering judgement. If a simple, Thurberian mistrust of machinery were not sufficient reason to fear and detest and hand-print machine, there would still be the cool efficiency that would replace the myopic checkers. At Harvard, as elsewhere, we've come to treasure inefficiency as a substitute for less capricious guarantees of benevolence. If the tangled...
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