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...applications. The first widely accepted one, FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), was developed in 1956 by a team at IBM. It is used primarily on scientific and mathematical problems. BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), which was written by Dartmouth Professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, is well suited for relatively simple personal-computer programs. It is widely taught in high schools and colleges, and even in some elementary schools, because it is easy to learn and use. More difficult to master, but more precise, is Pascal, named for the 17th century French mathematician. The language...
While graphology has long been used by European firms to evaluate potential employees, it has only recently caught on in the U.S. Handwriting Analyst Sheila Kurtz, who started her own New York-based consulting firm in 1973, now advises an estimated 200 companies. Business has been particularly brisk since the Hitler-diary hoax started a new interest in handwriting analysis. But some maintain that graphology is sometimes no more reliable than the Führer's scribblings. Says Theodore Hurst, a partner in the Chicago consulting firm of Worthington, Hurst & Associates: "It's a $10 idea made into...
Against such atrocities, civilized people with good prose styles reach for the requisite quote from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Didion repeats the line from Kurtz's report to the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs: "By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded." The U.S. embassy gives the author a more sophisticated version of this 19th century optimism. The exercise of will and power now reuires a public relations consultant. Says one embassy official: "We could come in militarily and shape the place up. That...
...reader as well. The author's mastery of atmosphere has never served him better than here. He wrings suspense not only from the urgency of his plot but from the complex texture of individual scenes. His characters must pursue moral absolutes in a dangerous world mined with ambiguities. Kurtz attempts to explain his crusade and his chosen victims to his new recruit: "Only those who break completely the human bond, Charlie. They deserve to die." Kurtz means terrorists, but he himself must face the necessity of ordering death for someone who has committed no crime except being too stupid...
...Israeli Kurtz is the most admirable and sympathetic character in the novel, and Le Carre may not be done with him: "I've thought of him as likely to be the hero of more books, but the chances, as far as I know at the moment, are nil." George Smiley exists in a similar limbo. Says the author: "We are simply not on terms at the moment. He's hung up his boots." One of the problems, paradoxically, between Le Carre and his character is the television exposure that Smiley received in adaptations of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier...