Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chemicals), and a full 30% to just four companies (Lockheed, General Dynamics, Boeing and North American Aviation). Beyond that, so much "private" research by business is directed toward Government contracts that scarcely $3 billion will be spent in 1963 for purely commercial ends. Says Assistant Secretary of Commerce J. Herbert Hollomon: "Our big increases in science funds have not led to corresponding increases in the rate of growth of our economy...
...CONTRARY EXPERIENCE by Herbert Read. 356 pages. Horizon Press...
...battle, an anarchist who has been a successful bureaucrat, a farmer's son who is famous as an exponent of esthetic theory, a spokesman for the avant-garde who can nevertheless write in praise of an idyllic past. The typical Englishman who is all these things is Sir Herbert Read, 69, a highly singular man who needs not one but four autobiographies to do justice to his talent for plural living...
...Moors. Sir Herbert, who despises institutional learning, and so, of course, became a professor (of fine arts at Edinburgh), writes with grace and clarity of his multiple lives. There is Herbert the dreaming farmboy on the moors of Yorkshire, Captain Read, M.C., D.S.O., an infantry captain in the Green Howards, and Herbert Read, the philosopher, poet and esthetician. Finally, because of his passionate belief that where a man lives is a vital part of man's true history, he traces his roots in the past of Yorkshire's lonely and beautiful North Riding, and describes the people...
...idolatries about man. He hates political man and distrusts all human groups above the size of a British infantry platoon (30 men). Most of all he hates modern man's "industrial civilization-a wilderness so arid and offensive that no organic life is possible within its limits." Sir Herbert indeed seems to have solved what George Orwell viewed as the crucial problem of the age: how to maintain the moral values of Christianity in the face of a widespread collapse of belief in the immortality of the soul...