Word: herberts
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Cunning & Dog Food. Carnegie is lavishly addicted to long-range research, in which students join professors to anticipate future business problems. By simulating human problem solving on a computer, for example, Psychologist Herbert A. Simon and his colleagues have been teaching the machine to "think"-that is, to make "cunning" choices by a form of reasoning rather than computing answers by doggedly calculating all possible alternatives. Using Simon's methods, an M.I.T. researcher has computerized the numerous and subtle judgments required in trust investment. Carnegie claims credit for the first industrial application of linear programming, which has since been...
Most inherited their faith. Five of the first ten Presidents were Episcopalian because in Virginia, where they were born, the Anglican church was the established church. Four were sons of preachers: Episcopalian Chester Arthur (son of a Baptist), Presbyterians Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, and Quaker Herbert Hoover. William Howard Taft, the last of four Unitarians to reach the White House, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most recent of nine Episcopalians to become Chief Executive, were active in church affairs all their lives. Calvin Coolidge (the only Congregationalist President) and Dwight Eisenhower (who was reared in a sect called...
What these artists create is only examples of reawakening realism. Yet they signal a change of mood. Realism, as opposed to abstraction, recognizes the external world and asserts the place of man and the objects that he makes within it. Sir Herbert Read, the British art critic, thought that realism is "an expression of confidence in, and sympathy for, the organic processes of life." Contemporary realists play it too cool for words like confidence and sympathy, but, almost reluctantly, they seem to be at least in touch with life...
...believe for those who are deprived of it through no fault of their own. Until we remove the tyranny of the forced option from their lives, we cannot pretend that our system makes equal opportunity possible. Until then, both the words 'free' and 'equal,' instead of declaring what Herbert Croly once called 'the promise of American life,' will remain a mask for privilege." Sanford A. Lakoff Assistant Professor of Government
...Herbert Stats, 53, freelance writer, public relations consultant to the Washington Heart Association. Job: consultant, Office of Aging, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and coordinator of Senior Citizens Month...