Word: herman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saab plant, teams of three or four workers assemble light, four-cylinder car engines at a rate of up to eight per hour. Team members decide among themselves who will work on what part of the engine, and some of the Americans welcomed this change from assembly-line routine. Herman Lommerse, 53, a Cadillac engine-plant worker, felt as if they were "building little toys." But his colleagues found the pace of work unexpectedly fast. Said Joe Rodriquez, 36, a ten-year Ford employee: "If I've got to bust my ass to be meaningful, forget...
Rockefeller and the order of things have buried 39 people and two issues--prison reform and basic human decency--in the cemetery reserved for all the dirty little stories of American history, most of which share the same themes: racism and violence. New York Congressman Herman Badillo provided the epitaph for Attica's tombstone: "There's always a time to die. I don't know what the rush...
...Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow discuss what could happen to science Fiction in the future. James Gunn, in his well-documented essay, traces the development of modern science fiction and its recent public acceptance. Gunn sees a danger for pure science fiction as mainstream writers like Anthony Burgess. Herman work and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. turn to the themes and concepts" of science fiction. To Gunn, such writers represent a literary culture that is hostile to science fiction with its rational, pragmatic view of the universe. The New Wave of science fiction writers, led by Judith Merril and J.G. Ballard, have...
...threadbare standard with which to rally a people to change the habits of a lifetime. The only sacrifice requested was as quickly rejected. Ford asked for a 5% surcharge on corporate income taxes and upper-level personal income taxes. Neither Democrats nor Republicans showed any interest. Representative Herman Schneebeli, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, informed Treasury Secretary William Simon: "The fate of this surcharge rests on what the American people tell us while we are home" during the election recess. The answer was plainly...
...Herman Melville...