Word: hermans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...straight to see around the necessary corners, much less through gaps. Describing a conference of scholars on the year 2000, he quotes Chairman Daniel Bell's advice to "think wild." Then he shows how little wild thinking anybody dared to do, even Doomsday Prophet Herman Kahn, who came equipped with statistics, charts and projections. "What is surprising about Kahn's world view," comments Thompson, "is its utter dearth of imagination...
...This Friday in Harrisburg Judge R. Dixon Herman will consider a motion to quash the subpoenas to testify in Harrisburg which were recently served on about 30 people. He denied motions yesterday to force the government to disclose evidence it had obtained about the witnesses through electronic surveillance...
Such experiments lead Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute to predict that by the year 2000, people will be able to wear chest consoles with ten levers wired to the brain's pleasure centers. Fantasies Kahn: "Any two consenting adults might play their consoles together. Just imagine all the possible combinations: 'Have you ever tried ten and five together?' couples would ask. Or, 'How about one and one?' But I don't think you should play your own console; that would be depraved...
Rubber Chicken. A social clique formed around the jury's foreman, Herman Tubick, 58, an undertaker. Dubbed "Herman's kids," the group included Jean Roseland; Larry Sheely, 25, a telephone repairman; Anlee Sisto, 48, a school-district electronics technician; Bob Douglass, 35, an alternate juror; and Mrs. Hines, nicknamed "Giggle-bottom" because of her enthusiastic response to gags...
...think Kissinger is the apotheosis of the new amoral technocrat who serves the empire with all the forces at his disposal. And he, unfortunately more than Rostow, is in the deadly climate of the scenarios, of the Herman Kahn-type scenarios. If one reads back a little bit, if one looks back at early interviews six years ago, seven years ago, with Kissinger, one is aware of the fact that he must be the author and the architect of the invasions in Southeast Asia and the expansion of the Indochina War. It's part of his faith that you must...