'Suddenly he would brandish a paperweight and shout `Foo, you rat! I'll
put nine grams of lead in your skull!''
-- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, 'The Gulag Archipelago'
A new taste had been acquired and a new appetite began to grow. The time
had long since arrived to crush the technical intelligentsia, which had
come to regard itself as too irreplaceable and had not gotten used to
catching instructions on the wing....