Word: herman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between members of the nuclear family. No one likes to talk about incest, but the ugly truth is that men sexually abuse their own daughters far more commonly than most people would guess. Mother-son incest is nearly non-existent by comparison. By writing Father-Daughter Incest. Judith Lewis Herman proposes a solution. In effect, she says for the crimes to end, the facts must be known...
...good books lately? Well, there is a hardback collection of Typee, Omoo and Mardi, all by a young novelist named Herman Melville (1819-91). Nearly 33,000 copies have been printed, shipped and readied for sale. And that is not all. Three look-alike companions are also hot off the presses and speeding toward dealers: the complete poetry and prose of Walt Whitman (1819-92), the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) and three novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). They will soon be available in U.S. bookstores, at $25 apiece...
...through an intensive course of reading and interviews on various aspects of nuclear war. To summarize and synthesize what passes for expertise on the subject, he drew on a wide range of sources: theorists who specialize in this modern-day branch of eschatology, like the Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn (who wrote a book of his own 20 years ago, Thinking About the Unthinkable); physicists who explain how the bomb works; military men who explain how it might be used; and physicians and other scientists who speculate on what might happen when it is exploded. Schell concludes that once...
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras (Z, State of Siege) builds Missing around the arrival in Santia go of Herman's father Edmund (Jack Lemmon), who joins Horman's wife (Sissy Spacek) in a frustrating quest to find out what happened to his son (John Shea). Basing his narrative largely on Thomas Hauser's 1978 book, The Execution of Charles Horman (reissued in a new paperback as Missing), Costa-Gavras shows the pair running up against a phalanx of American diplomats who profess to be helping but who know all along that the Chilean military authorities have already murdered...
Assistant to the Treasurer Herman M. Anderson, who earned $8010 in 1979, received $43.431 last year. But Rosen said that Anderson's 1981 salary actually reflects a year-and-a-half of work...