Word: herman
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...good thing too. Atlantic High will not displace Two Years Before the Mast or Moby Dick from even the most loyal conservative's bookshelf; Buckley's voyage is a piece of cake compared with those undertaken by Richard Henry Dana Jr. or Herman Melville. The storms encountered by the chartered 71-ft. ketch Sealestial are really industrial-strength squalls; the calms are overcome by the expedient of switching on the engine. It is Buckley's crew-as fine a collection of overachievers as ever spliced the main brace-who make the trip a sentimental journey...
...Amato, Stuart Anlgang, Ied Ashford, Michael Baldock, Anthony Ball, Preeta Bansal, Saran Burgess, Jenniler Burton Ethan Cohen, Regan Coleman, Eggert Dagbjartsson, Gerlad Damm, Suzanne Dechy, Charles DiBona, Mark Eichorn, Erica Eisenberg, Andrew Fletcher, William Foulkes, M. Fima Friedman, Paul Gompers, Loralic Goss, Alison Harrington, Emily Harrison, Adrienne Headley, Ron Herman, Michael Hirschorn, Raquel Jacobson, Per Jebsen, Kerry Kelgar, Scott Kogan, Mary Kwak, Deborah I esinsohn, Brian Melindez, Alan Morre, Steven Nusshaum, An Posner, Marvin Putnam, William Rehling, Samuel Rickless, Mitch Rosner, Chris Roy, Charles Rudmick, Jill Ruttenberg, Jell Russan, Laura Robinson, Michael Samols, Katherine Saunders, Henry Shapiro, Andrea Silbert, Daman...
...collectively as the "Concord" Quartets after the ensemble for which they were written, and the Violin Concerto, premiered by Isaac Stern. But his most ambitious rapprochement with the past has come not in instrumental music but in opera. The Confidence Man, with a libretto by Gene Rochberg based on Herman Melville's bleak, cynical novel, is currently on display at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico...
...COMING BOOM by Herman Kahn; Simon & Schuster; 237pages...
...latest sooth, says the veteran think-tank commander Herman Kahn, is that prosperity and stability are probably just around the next bell curve. Barring bad luck and bad management, the last 18 years of the century should see higher productivity, lower inflation and a resurgence of traditional values. This upbeat news comes from a man who has taken a particular pleasure in bucking intellectual trends. Kahn, a co-founder and director of the Hudson Institute, infuriated liberals of the early '60s with two books that can still start an argument. On Thermonuclear War and Thinking About the Unthinkable asserted...