Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complete outsider to both Atari and computers, at first seemed like another bizarre Warner decision. Morgan was an Easterner in a Californian's game, a traditionalist in a rootless industry, a believer in long-term growth in a market hooked on quick profit and instant gratification, a technological skeptic among scientific true believers. Morgan had run the Philip Morris tobacco-marketing division, whose products included such fast-rising brands as Virginia Slims and Merit, with an almost ostentatious lack of computers. He preferred writing meticulous longhand notes on legal pads to punching numbers into a machine...
...will recant nothing, because to act against one's conscience is neither safe nor salutary. So help me God." (Experts today think that he did not actually speak the famous words, "Here I stand. I can do no other.") This was hardly the cry of a skeptic, but it was ample grounds for the Emperor to put Luther under sentence of death as a heretic. Instead of being executed, Luther lived for another 25 years, became a major author and composer of hymns, father of a bustling household and a secular figure who opposed rebellion-in all, a commanding...
...older boy became a total skeptic, exaggerating his mother's tendencies; Isaac rebelled against rebellion, ransacking "the spiritual treasure trove" of religious belief. As Sinclair observes, Isaac the daydreamer "gloried in the aristocracy of his imagination." His sibling "observed the world as a political machine...
Perhaps Sculley's most crucial long-term test will be his ability to work with Jobs, 28, the charismatic but sometimes mercurial chairman. Though the two have been conducting a public love feast, the going may get rough. Said one skeptic: "Everybody is a golden boy with Steve for six months." The chairman and the president have already differed over the management of some new projects...
...identity when you are the wife of protean Writer Norman Mailer, 49, especially when you're an artist in your own right. A former art instructor from Russellville, Ark., Norris Church Mailer, 33, has hardly been hurt by familial connections, but her oils are better than many a skeptic would expect. Last week the artist's work went on display in a one-woman show in Manhattan's SoHo district. For her depiction of down-home folks sitting on front stoops or ambling along Main Street, Church uses family, friends and even herself as models-just about...