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Burdick Group. Bruce Burdick, designer; Herman Miller, manufacturer. One of the first flexible office-furniture systems to come to terms with computer terminals and other electronic office machines...
...reader is plunged into a make belief, not a make-believe world. Herman Melville's novel The Confidence-Man was an early and largely forgotten guide. More studied than read, the book conjured up a group of impostors, gamblers, land agents and divines on an 1850s Mississippi riverboat. The only one to suffer loss of innocence on the trip was the reader, who had been exposed to a masquerade of identities and motivations. He was left with a befuddling sense of life as it is lived but rarely understood...
...always hopeful that all Cambridge City Councillors will meet issues open-mindedly. The recent Chamber of Commerce Housing Study by Herman Leonard of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government tries to start a dialogue about the city's thorniest problem, housing policy...
...committee's willingness to accept heresy evidence, its refusal to allow students appearing before it to have lawyers present, and its refusal to hold open meetings. "In its present form the CRR is unacceptable, and certain modifications must be made before the GSC will recognize it," Herman L. Marshall, GSC president, said after Tuesday's vote...
...Thurber glorified in his writings are just plain boring in his correspondence. Ironically, the letters themselves reveal the crucial element they lack--a good editing. "I sold The New Yorker [a piece] on which I spent a week of days and nights," he writes his friend E.B. White. To Herman Miller, another intimate, he writes. "I am enclosing [my pastiche] on Henry James. I spend four months on it two winters ago, but found on going back to it that it need trimming and changes...During the four months I worked on it day and night...