Word: herbert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Christian Coalition-controlled Republican Party reminds me of the early Puritans. All that's missing are the wooden stocks and the burning of the witches. I've been a dyed-in-the-wool Republican since 1928, when I voted for Herbert Hoover, but no longer. ROBERT R. HELMERICHS St. Louis Park, Minnesota...
...DIED. HERBERT HUNCKE, 81, hustler and hooligan who gave the Beats their name and William S. Burroughs his first fix; in New York City. He was a character in the works of his cronies Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac...
Perhaps the most interesting story of the three is Dow's. A longtime Republican who first voted in 1928 for Herbert Hoover, Dow has spent his life waging what he described as fruitless battles for conservatism in Cambridge...
...would be easy to say all eyes were on Atlanta, but the film industry has problems that won't end with the closing ceremonies. "The movie business isn't bleeding to death, but it's bleeding," says Herbert Allen Jr., the entertainment industry's eminent investment banker. It wouldn't appear that way from the resounding success of such megahits as Independence Day and Twister, but Hollywood's economics are a mess. Last year the industry brought in $5.5 billion, and through the first half of this year ticket sales are up 14% compared with 1995, according to the Exhibitor...
Could it be that religious faith has some direct influence on physiology and health? Harvard's Herbert Benson is probably the most persuasive proponent of this view. Benson won international fame in 1975 with his best-selling book, The Relaxation Response. In it he showed that patients can successfully battle a number of stress-related ills by practicing a simple form of meditation. The act of focusing the mind on a single sound or image brings about a set of physiological changes that are the opposite of the "fight-or-flight response." With meditation, heart rate, respiration and brain waves...