Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Mary McC. Fernandez, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph...
...their own devices to deal with the challenge. In the U.S., contractors must meet an avalanche of government specifications on materials and procedures but are not required to guarantee the road's performance. "The Europeans create a contract climate that stimulates innovation; here we squash it," laments Douglas Bernard, director of the Office of Technology Applications in the Federal Highway Administration...
...Bernard and other highway officials would like to see the U.S. move to a performance-contract system, similar to one advocated by the National Academy of Sciences, but they face roadblocks from builders. Heavy lobbying from the construction industry eliminated such a provision in the 1991 federal highway act, passed last fall. The industry especially dreads being asked to guarantee the life-span of its products, arguing that it is unreasonable without knowing for certain what the traffic will be like, despite the fact that European contractors routinely make these assurances. Such warranties, insists David Lukens of the Associated General...
Herein lies the structural leitmotif that encapsulates Mr. Lodge's main theme, a device readers of Mr. Lodge's have come to expect. Roger Sheldrake, an aggressive anthropologist, explains to Bernard the thesis of his book: "Sightseeing," he lectures," is a substitute for religious ritual." His model includes travels as a pilgrimage through which some transformative healing process is intended to occur. Mr. Lodge's book is based on the same thesis, to some extent, as Sheldrake...
...Lodge's ability to juxtapose different worlds and to effect a composition out of what might be expected to be contradiction makes his work original. Bernard recalls some lines from The Tempest: Sir, he may live./I saw him beat the surges under him,/And ride upon their backs. "Is that, I wonder, the first description of surfing in English Literature?" Bernard muses...