Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Georgia (32): No decision likely until the civil rights issue has been fought out in Chicago, but most of the delegation (bound by the unit rule) seems to agree with Senatorial Candidate Herman Talmadge, who looks upon Stevenson as "the lesser of evils...
Clarinet-playing Bandleader Woody Herman, who has managed to go modern after starting out as a swingster, refuses to admit that the clarinet has lost caste. "Brother, the clarinet still sounds as sweet and ridey as ever," he says. "The big fault lies in the lack of new men. Guys like Goodman, Shaw and myself should lend a hand, but Goodman is too busy sorting his jewelry, Shaw is still having trouble keeping track of his girls, and me, well, I have the problem of trying to keep up with Uncle Whiskers on my tax bill. Sure...
...ought to have enough to write about without digging up her own private garden. For me, it was just a routine relationship, and she's blown it up." Of the present "pretty bad" state of U.S. fiction, as exemplified by the "elevation" of Marjorie Morningstar, the bestseller by Herman Wouk, to its high acclaim as top-notch literature: "I have nothing against Mr. Wouk. It's simply the matter of him being built up because he shows respect to so-called hallowed institutions . . . Good novelists better leave the hallowing of sacred institutions to people who get paid...
...service's monthly Southern School News has walked the tightrope of factual reporting so skillfully that partisans on opposite sides now look up to it, and an increasing number of Southern newspapers are carrying its stories. A single mail brought subscription renewals from Georgia's Segregationist Herman Talmadge and Desegregationist and Novelist Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith. Last week the service's correspondents were back at their posts throughout the South after a conference in Nashville to plan another year of "providing accurate, unbiased information...
This change, says Biographer Newton (Herman Melville] Arvin, was probably inevitable. "The culture we so fondly cherish is now disastrously threatened from without, and the truer this becomes, the intenser becomes the awareness of our necessary identification with it." In any case, says Jacques Barzun, by the end of World War 11 "it was no disgrace, no provincialism, to accept America and admire it ... America . . . was quite simply the world power, which means: the center of world awareness: it was Europe that was provincial...