Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garnered 23% of the $2.2 billion worldwide market in personal computers, has to fight off a host of aggressive competitors. Tandy Corp.'s Radio Shack, with its 8,400 retail outlets, has captured an equal 23% of sales. Xerox has a new entry that its engineers call the "worm" because they claim that it can eat an Apple. Most important, mighty IBM has joined the fray with its first personal computer...
...throughout one of the most intense periods of building in American history. Everyone, including Wolfe, knows something about it. But he brings nothing new to the argument except, perhaps, a kind of supercilious rancor and a free-floating hostility toward the intelligentsia. The late bird has got half the worm. The Right Stuff, his best book, sandwiched between his two weakest, The Painted Word and this one, showed how accurate an eye Wolfe has for manners, fantasies, customs and hype, and how he can rise to a kind of ravenous comic brilliance when engaged with a subject he respects. There...
...dregs of the literary population have risen as one worm to insult me," Edith stormed in a typical rhetorical outburst...
Told through a combination of straight narrative and excerpts from imaginary histories and journals, God Emperor is a cautionary yarn about the messianic ego and an uncritical faith in technology. The book also harbors a cynical view of politics. Some musings from the worm who would be god: "Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat." Some of Leto's decrees are variations on the Old Testament. Dune's religion, for example, outlaws computers as graven im ages of the mind. Throughout, his observations...
Unfortunately, most students and faculty members are completely ignorant of the structure of the course. Its "gut" reputation persists, despite the revamping of the course over the last few years. Such rumors are perpetuated by narrow-minded people; they are the ones who regurgitate those time worm slogans like "Eliot's preppy" or "Kirkland's for jocks." This narrow-mindedness is clearly exemplified by The Harvard Independent's J. Campbell, who safely restates an accepted but naive public opinion in his article entitled "Last Run for Galactic Gut?" (Harvard Independent, February...