Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their enemy was Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge, who had inherited "Ol Gene" Talmadge's hatred for "them lying newspapers." For a while, Herman had tried to fight his press critics with scurrilous attacks in his own weekly Statesman ("The People-Editor; "Herman E. Talmadge-Associate Editor"). Then Herman's men introduced three tough press-control bills into the state legislature...
...Herman caught the change in the political wind, decided not to try to push the bills through in the current session. But they were far from dead. Talmadge's political straw boss, Roy Harris, dropped a clue to the new strategy: "I wouldn't pass those bills. I'd hold 'em over the heads of the newspapers...
Billy Budd (adapted from Herman Melville's story by Louis O. Coxe & Robert Chapman; produced by Chandler Cowles & Anthony B. Farrell) is a brave shot at a difficult target. On its own terms the sea story that constitutes Herman Melville's valedictory to life is certainly great enough. But to recast it for the theater means tackling a subject far deeper than the sea, grappling with a far-from-well-told story. It means handling utterance that now soars on wings, now walks on stilts. It means working with characters that are essentially black & white, must not become...
...Hoof. In El Paso, Deputy Customs Collector Herman F. Cherry revealed that a surprise inspection at the Juarez bridge turned up: 1) 32 Ibs. of meat inside a spare tire; 2) an 8-lb. beef roast in a woman's purse; 3) a huge, raw, unwrapped round steak being worn as a girdle...
...Herman Melville is both the strength and weakness of the play "Billy Budd." In transposing his novel to the stage, authors Louis Coxe and Robert Chapman (who now teaches English 160) have preserved the moral depth and intensity that are outstanding in Melville. "Billy Budd" is a play of more than average significance and complexity. But even one who has assiduously avoided reading the novel in order better to judge the play on its own merit, cannot fail to recognize the hand of the novelist in what should be the playwright's handiwork...