Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAIN, by Conrad Richter, illustrated by Herbert Danska (Knopf; $3.75). The old Pennsylvania Dutch legend holds that on the second of July, a woman named Mary walks over the mountain; if it rains that day, Mary doesn't come back and there are 40 days of rain. Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Richter's story tells what happens when two boys meet a real Mary...
Once a member of the late Hugh Gaitskell's "Hampstead set" of Laborite intellectuals, he has written biographies of Herbert Asquith, Clement Attlee and Sir Charles Dilke, the Victorian politician whose career was ruined by scandal. Jenkins appeals to a wide assortment of people, including businessmen, who regard him as a seasoned administrator, and members of London's exclusive clubs, who approve of his elegant tastes for good claret and cozy dinners...
Partial and partly reassuring answers are being reported this week to hematologists meeting in Toronto by Dr. Herbert F. Oettgen speaking for a research team at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. L-asparaginase is so scarce, besides being forbiddingly expensive,º that Dr. Oettgen could report on only 14 patients. Even this small number of cases made it clear that the enzyme is likely to be effective mainly, against only one common form of "blood cancer" - acute lymphatic leukemia. All seven patients with this type of disease showed prompt and marked improvement; among them were three children...
Richard Wagner conceived his Ring des Nibelungen as combining voice, orchestra, acting and settings into a perfect expressive unity, a "total artwork." That phrase could very nearly describe Austrian-born Herbert von Karajan. At 59, Von Karajan not only is the world's foremost conductor but concerns himself with every aspect of his epic productions, including direction, stage design, lighting. Head of the Berlin Philharmonic, director of the Easter and summer festivals at Salzburg, Von Karajan last week added the Metropolitan Opera to his realm by conducting and staging Die Walküre, first item in a new Ring...
...useful phenomenon: every so often a word breezes into common usage meaning many things and weaving together previously unrelated objects into a new category. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov offers a new word, poshlost (pronounced push-lost). In Russian it means vulgarity or triteness, but in an interview with Author Herbert Gold in the current Paris Review, Nabokov so expands the definition that it makes one wonder how the English language ever got along without...