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* Spengler's concept of the ' Faustian ' outlook was an important part of Herman Kahn's book The Year 2000.
" Like the movie, Kahn's book has humor.
His final film project was an adaptation of Roger Kahn's classic book, " The Boys of Summer.
It was said that Kubrick immersed himself in Kahn's book On Thermonuclear War.
There are other allusions to the poem in the field of Fantasy and Science Fiction: the first book of James Kahn's " New World Series " is titled " World Enough, and Time ;" and Peter S. Beagle's " A Fine and Private Place " about a love affair between two ghosts in a graveyard.
The concept was notably discussed in Kahn's 1960 book, On Thermonuclear War.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in his New York Times review that the book had " very real shortcomings " including " Mr. Kahn's unremitting tone of veneration, as if all his memories had been removed from the altars of the world's great cathedrals ", but nevertheless found it to be " a book that succeeded for me despite almost everything about it.
The book was to include information on the NSA, and according to author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication, and considered various options, including writing a negative review of Kahn's work to be published in the press to discredit him.
Kahn's first published book, The Codebreakers-The Story of Secret Writing ( 1967 ), was widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography up to the mid-1960s.
The book was to include information on the National Security Agency ( NSA ), and according to the author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication, and considered various options, including publishing a negative review of Kahn's work in the press to discredit him.
A couple of decades later, Roger Kahn's acclaimed book The Boys of Summer and Frank Sinatra's song " There Used to Be a Ballpark " mourned the loss of places like Ebbets Field, and of the attendant youthful innocence of fans and players alike.
The NSA itself says the book " brought a new focus to the efforts of journalists and independent writers to break down the Agency's vaunted anonymity ," and describes the book as " the most significant breach in NSA's anonymity since David Kahn's The Codebreakers in 1967.
An adaptation of the book is the basis of Cedric Kahn's film L ' ennui (" The Ennui ") ( 1998 ).
Herman Kahn's innovative non-fiction book On Thermonuclear War, ( 1961 ) describing various nuclear war scenarios, was never widely popular, but the seeming outlandishness of its projections and the possibility of a " Doomsday Machine " ( an idea Kahn got from Leo Szilard before relatively small, deliverable thermonuclear weapons were developed in 1954 ) as a way to prevent war were direct inspirations for director Stanley Kubrick to handle Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as a black comedy.
Kahn's latest book, Into My Own ( published June 2006 ) is a memoir describing friendships with Robert Frost, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Eugene McCarthy, and his late son, Roger Laurence Kahn, who suffered from bipolar disorder and heroin addiction, and who died by his own hand from carbon monoxide poisoning in 1987.
One can get a great flavor of ' Ole Preach ', as he was called, by reading Roger Kahn's book The Boys of Summer.
Labine is prominently featured in Roger Kahn's classic book The Boys of Summer and in Carl Erskine's autobiography, Carl Erskine's Tales from the Dodgers Dugout: Extra Innings.

Kahn's and Years
Years later, during the time of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, the united Edenian and Shokan forces attacked the weakened Shao Kahn's armies.

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After Kahn's death in 1924 Scott wrote: `` May he rest in peace with the eternal gratitude of his adopted country ''.
Kahn's idea was to package all these functions in an integrated programming toolkit, have it run with much better performance, and charge one low price for it all.
Among the more important of Kahn's early collaborations was with George Howe .< ref >
The interview continues into Kahn's involvement with networking when he moves to IPTO in 1972, where he was responsible for the administrative and technical evolution of the ARPANET, including programs in packet radio, the development of a new network protocol ( TCP / IP ), and the switch to TCP / IP to connect multiple networks.
Gus Kahn's most famous songs include: " My Buddy " ( 1922 ) with music by Walter Donaldson, " It Had To Be You " ( 1924 ) with music by Isham Jones, " Side by Side " ( 1927 ) with music by Harry M. Woods, and " Makin ' Whoopee!
In 1978, Kahn's comic screen persona reached another peak with Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective ( 1978 ), a spoof of both Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, directed by Robert Moore.
After Jean-François Kahn's comments on BFM TV on 13 December 2010, she denounced " state manipulation " mounted from the Elysée with the intention of demonizing her in public opinion.
Brown had been an admirer of Kahn's work for some time, and the approach he specified for the building was very much in line with Kahn's, particularly its emphasis on natural light.
Kahn's first design for the galleries called for angular vaults of folded concrete plates with light slots at the top.
The new proposal was exactly in line with Louis Kahn's own thoughts for expansion: a separate building.
The shooting script included a lengthy fight scene with Raiden that was omitted during filming ; instead, she was simply crushed by a falling cage in Kahn's throne room.
Designed by Albert Kahn and Associates with Joseph Nathaniel French as chief architect, it has been called Detroit's largest art object and is widely considered Kahn's greatest achievement.
In addition to her backstory with Kitana, she is named Kahn's new general of his Extermination Squads following the early death of Rain.
Architectural historian William Jordy said, " Perverse as the hidden entrance may seem, it emphatically reinforces Kahn's statement that his design begins on the periphery with the circle of individual carrels, each with its separate window.
In the series finale, the Defenders of the Realm prepare for the final battle with Shao Kahn's forces on the anniversary of the unfortunate death of Jerrod, the king of Edenia and Kitana's father.
The impetus for this invention was the birth of Kahn's daughter, Sophie ; he jury-rigged a mobile phone with a digital camera and sent off photos in real time.

Kahn's and Brown
From Kahn's point of view, Brown was an ideal client.

Kahn's and presented
Muste and Bertrand Russell, admired and praised Kahn's work, because they felt it presented a strong case for full disarmament by suggesting that nuclear war was all but unavoidable.

Kahn's and year
Kahn's sailing team, Pegasus Racing, competes in many world championships each year around the world.

Kahn's and .
Most scholars attribute the origins of this idea to futurologist Herman Kahn's World Economic Development: 1979 and Beyond.
Using a simple design, it became possible to connect almost any network to the ARPANET, irrespective of their local characteristics, thereby solving Kahn's initial problem.
One popular expression is that TCP / IP, the eventual product of Cerf and Kahn's work, will run over " two tin cans and a string.
Turbo Pascal is a software development system that includes a compiler and an integrated development environment ( IDE ) for the Pascal programming language running on CP / M, CP / M-86, and DOS, developed by Borland under Philippe Kahn's leadership.
Unlike Kahn's device, it was not based on radioactive cobalt, but it was self-activated and could not be stopped.
In addition to Louis Kahn's Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, the island has also been the site of numerous other architectural speculations.
From 1954 to 1965, Venturi held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as Kahn's teaching assistant, an instructor, and later, as associate professor.
Influenced by ancient ruins, Kahn's style tends to the monumental and monolithic ; his heavy buildings do not hide their weight, their materials, or the way they are assembled.
Louis Kahn's works are considered as monumental beyond modernism.
Lewis and her band, Ben Bernie's band " Ben Bernie and All the Lads ", and Roger Wolfe Kahn's band were filmed by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process in 1925, in three short films that are now in the Library of Congress film collection.
Madeline Kahn's " Flames ... on the side of my face " speech was entirely improvised.
Kahn's major contributions were the several strategies he developed during the Cold War to contemplate " the unthinkable ", namely, nuclear warfare, by using applications of game theory.
Strong conventional forces were also a key element in Kahn's strategic thinking, for he argued that the tension generated by relatively minor flashpoints worldwide could be thereby effectively siphoned off without undue resort to the nuclear option.
In Kahn's view, capitalism and technology held nearly boundless potential for progress ; the colonization of space lay in the near, not the distant, future.
The friendship between Reese and Robinson is prominent in Roger Kahn's classic work, The Boys of Summer.
Kahn's mother suspected her daughter had died after a botched abortion, possibly carried out by Reich himself ; Christopher Turner writes that she apparently found some of her daughter's bloodied underwear in a cupboard.

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