Word: wounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should I want to save time? I hear you, friend. I hear you. You wonder where it gets you, saving all that time, when you think about old Henry Ford's gizmo that was supposed to save a peck of time. Only instead of conquering the open road, we wound up living on it. You've got a point. You a college boy? But this is the country of the A-bomb and the zipper. We always save time, good and bad. Tempus fugit. Time is money. Most of all, time is dreams. And computers give you time for dreams...
...Hewlett wound up supplying Jobs with parts for a frequency counter, a device that measures the speed of electronic impulses. This introduced Jobs to the concept of timing, critical for understanding a computer, and furnished him with a cornerstone that, according to Wozniak, he never bothered to build on. Says Wozniak: "I doubt Steve was careful down to the last detail, which is really the key to high-level engineering." Shape, not subtlety, was more in Jobs' line, foreshadowing what one Apple manager calls the "technical ignorance he's not willing to admit." It was the practical applications of technology...
...instantly fetched her first-aid kit, cleaned the wound and applied a fresh bandage. Says Brelis: "Somehow, in her company, one thinks less of one's discomforts and more of other people's needs. The garbage collectors' world seemed a little less imperfect for her presence, and that, I think, is a miracle for this...
...from the conventions of approach which prohibited the use of personal detail as subject matter. The Dolphin (1973) drew heavily from his breakup with Hardwick and aroused critical furor. Lifelong friends of Lowell's--Elizabeth Bishop included--advised him not to publish the manuscript. He went ahead anyway and wound up pioneering a new poetry; it was confessional, elevated to art and updated by the new approaches to the 20th century...
DIED. Benny Friedman, 77, All-America quarterback at the University of Michigan (1924-26) and star of the National Football League for eight seasons, regarded as the game's first master of the forward pass; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in New York City. A sophisticated student of football, Friedman handed down his theories both as a college coach and as an outspoken advocate of reformed pension plans for the pro game's early stars and improved techniques for preventing injury...