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...Greens in West Germany have helped create a regulatory atmosphere that has been hostile to industrial growth. In the U.S. particularly, an extremely low personal savings rate (5.7% of take-home pay vs. 18.7% in Japan) has reduced the potential pool of funds available for investment. Says Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute, a New York-based research group: "People are really not willing to sacrifice for economic growth any more...
...Says Herman W Liebert librarian emeritus of Yale's Binecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. "He [Bond] inherited a wonderful resource and had a very, very difficult act to follow, but he has lived up to the challenge[Houghton] is one of the finest collections in the world because ofWilliam Bond...
...ribbons. He said he could not tie the bows properly until next March, and sent instead drawings of what he had planned. Williams' play, And Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws, came in too short-no more than 45 or 50 minutes-and Executive Director Robert Herman, the operating head of the festival, had to switch to another new Williams work, A House Not Meant to Stand, which had already been seen in Chicago. Peter Evans, a Miami playwright, withdrew altogether. Menotti, who had been paid $10,000 to write his Second Piano Concerto, said he could not finish...
...Hispanic community, which now constitutes 40% of Miami's population, complained that there were no productions in Spanish. Feelings were not at all mollified when Herman announced that the official dress for men would be not white tie, black tie or even coat and tie, but the guayabera, a fancy open-necked Cuban shirt, worn loose outside the trousers...
Lack of focus is also the main criticism that can be made of the festival built by Herman, who also doubles as the energetic, ebullient head of the Miami Opera. He had several critical successes, but he tried to do too much and concentrated his efforts too little. Miamians were puzzled and overwhelmed, and out-of-state tourists, who might have found in the festival an excuse for a vacation in February or March, simply yawned from afar. After 21 premieres, more than 200 performances and the possible loss of $700,000, the festival had to acknowledge the force...