Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HERMAN PINETTI, M.D. La Jolla, Calif...
...podium offscreen was Musical Director Peter Herman Adler, wearing a particularly abstracted look because the music of his orchestra impinged directly on one ear, while the singing of the distant cast and chorus entered his other ear through a headphone. If he wanted to see how the action looked, he peeked at a nearby monitor TV screen. He was also watched by a TV camera, and his image was flashed on monitor screens in the chorus room and at various points in the block-long onetime movie studio that served as the stage. There, relay conductors glued their eyes...
...first novel. It also gives 28-year-old Novelist R. Prawer Jhabvala, Polish wife of a Hindu architect and a resident of India for the past five years, her chance to fashion a deft comedy of manners and values. Allowing for an Indian sea change, her moral is essentially Herman Wouk's-that one's cultural heritage is not a vise but a virtue...
...Senator was heading into the probability of a primary battle against ex-Governor Herman Talmadge, a hard and shrewd man who has promised the voters a declaration of his intentions next spring...
Marjorie Morningstar, by Herman Wouk, again, as in The Caine Mutiny, put its author on the side of unfashionable literary virtues-this time, character and middle-class morality. Told as a love story about a stage-struck New York girl, Marjorie quickly became the nation's favorite novel...