"How to Plan for 1995," a feature article in Fortune Magazine (December 1990), begins with the following declaration by management theorist Ronald Henkoff: "One year into the Nineties and this is shaping up as the decade in which we came, we saw, and we ran for cover." A recessing economy, a warring Gulf, a rising unemployment, a deteriorating environment, and a looming deficit ($50,000 per taxpayer) have all rained on our proposed parade of peace, prosperity, and plenty.
An early American folk expression spoke euphemistically of "seeing the elephant and hearing the owl." (See the book analyzing the diaries and personal letters of 381 soldiers who fought at the battle of Shiloh by Joseph Allan Frank and George A. Reaves entitled "Seeing the Elephant": Raw Recruits at the Battle of Shiloh* (Westport: Greenwood, 1989.) This strange sounding juxtaposition of images was used to describe an encounter with some insurmountable obstacle (hence "seeing the elephant") which threatened the very ...
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