Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GREAT MODERN SHORT NOVELS (448 pp.)-James Joyce, Herman Melville, Katherine Anne Porter, Nikolai Gogol, Glenway Wescott, William Faulkner-Dell (paperback...
...voices, in the richest words at their command. And Billy Budd's themes, often thought to be peculiarly modern-the individual and the state, innocence and authority-are far better expressed in the moral, oratorical, Biblical jargon of Melville than in the journeyman prose of Herman Wouk...
Catch, Anyone?When Watkins finished, Idaho's Republican Senator Herman Welker, who seems to be McCarthy's floor manager, began a speech that lasted through most of the next day. Trying to prove his thesis that other Senators have acted just as badly as McCarthy, Welker gave a fascinating account of the aftermath to a 1951 radio recording session in which Senators debated Far Eastern problems. Said Welker: "The Senator from Indiana [Republican Homer Capehart] threw out of the broadcasting studio into my arms the Senator from Minnesota [Democrat Hubert Humphrey], a friend of mine. The Senator from...
...honorary degrees, was a White House guest of President Eisenhower, highlighted his visit with a foray into Georgia, the homeland of his ancestors. In Atlanta, he was welcomed by the city's white mayor but failed to meet the man who had invited him to the state, Governor Herman Talmadge, a white supremacist, who found it expedient to be elsewhere dedicating a hospital...
Most states have laws specifically authorizing sterilization when it is dictated by medical necessity (28 go further and allow it for eugenic reasons), and none forbids it. But Maryland has no clear-cut legislation on the subject. Circuit Judge Herman Moser went back to a general provision of the Maryland code for his authority: "The court shall have full power ... to superintend and direct the affairs of persons non compotes mentis, both as to the care of their persons and the management of their estates." Last month Judge Moser ordered the operation...