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FERMENT
A Newsletter of Opinion
Founded: 1981
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Editor: Roy Lisker
12 Frazier Street
Middletown, CT 06457
Ferment is a personal newsletter of coverage and opinion. It continually redefines itself through its contents : political essays, commentary and satire; travel documentaries; interviews with and portraits of scientists in math, physics, biology, genetic engineering and psychology; reports on conferences ; reviews of music, literature and art;; serialized novels and documentaries ; short stories; poetry; letters:
A selection of articles since 1984:
April, 1984: On Noam Chomsky's Structural Linguistics
Ferment has acquired a certain celebrity among linguists, being perhaps the only publication of a serious nature to expose the crankiness in this renowned "system" of universal grammar.
January, 1988: Benoit Mandlebrot's 5-Ring Fractal Circus:
Report on a 5-day conference on Chaos and Fractals at the University of Cincinnati , September 1987.
September, 1990: The Cripple Factor: Oil, Arms and the Balance of Payments in the Middle East
On the eve of the Gulf war, Ferment published an analysis of American policies in the Middle East. The "cripple factor" refers to the exporting of inappropriate technologies to Third World countries, mostly in the form of weaponry.
July, 1982 : Puerto Rico, Music, Tourism & Politics:
Invited to cover the Casals Festival, Ferment interviewed leading composers , teachers at the Conservatory, and figures of the music industry.
October, 1986 : A modern troubadour in France.
The author of Ferment retraces, with violin and poetry, the roads and the life-styles of the troubadours of the 12th century.
September ,1987 Blues for Christian Hermann:
A full day's night at the Beatnik Poetry Festival in Lawrence, Kansas, Sept. 13, 1987.
April, 1989 : Encounters with famous French intellectuals:
Ferment tracks down Le Pouvoir Intellectuel , the "brain trust" of writers nominally consulted by the Mitterand government. A stroll through the private underworld of French literary life!!
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