Word: herman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuticle" in Herman Melville's White Jacket...
Forecasting is an art that still has few textbooks. Its basic tool is extrapolation from yesterday and today. As John McHale, executive director of World Resources Inventory, puts it: "The future of the future is in the present." Some other methods seem fairly arcane. Defense Expert Herman Kahn, for instance, uses "scenario writing," in which various alternative future situations are dramatized. Some forecasters use computers to produce a symbolic "model" of particular social or economic structures-including whole industries or nations-and then simulate the interaction of variables. Rand uses the "Delphi" method, in which a wide range of experts...
...will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy. With Government benefits, even nonworking families will have, by one estimate, an annual income of $30,000-$40,000 (in 1966 dollars). How to use leisure meaningfully will be a major problem, and Herman Kahn foresees a pleasure-oriented society full of "wholesome degeneracy...
...Dame's Father Theodore Hesburgh and Michigan State's John Hannah discovered that Princeton's Robert Goheen and Cornell's James Perkins had just left, after checking up on the use of U.S. foreign-aid funds. While there, they met Indiana's ex-president, Herman Wells, back from an advisory mission to Bangkok...
...brains behind The Boys undoubtedly believe that the movie reflects changing tastes, but they seem to confuse updating with downgrading. In front of a camera that sits paralyzed with embarrassment most of the time, Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Herman's Hermits and other specialty acts struggle gamely to stay cool. It is Armstrong's ironic duty to appear at the fadeout, rumbling in song, ". . . who could ask for anything more...