Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-one-year-old Woodrow Wilson ("Woody") Herman was back in town -and back on top of the musical heap-with his Third Herd, the most versatile band he has ever...
...explain the obsession that returned him so often to the precarious profession. His first to make jazz was called "The Band that Plays the Blues," which blew its way around a swing-crazy countryside from 1936 until it was broken up by the draft. In 1944 he organized the Herman Herd, the band whose piledriver precision so bemused Composer Igor Stravinsky that he wrote his Ebony Concerto for it. The outfit made Herman the top bandsman in the land. He disbanded it because it left him too little time for wife and daughter-"I just hadda go home, that...
Bandleader Herman is ready to show that generation what it has been missing...
...legal maneuvers (e.g., test cases in court, redistricting), Herman Talmadge and others could continue segregation for some time. But they have little chance of making it permanent. The Supreme Court's decision was another vital chapter in one of the greatest success stories the world has ever known: the American Negro's 90-year rise from slavery. The Herman Talmadges are not going to write the last chapter of that story...
Broadway, all this time, was also happily in business. In Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny Court Martial, it turned out first-rate theater. In John Patrick's Teahouse of the August Moon (which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Critics Award), it offered the pleasantest sort of popular entertainment. In Edward Chodorov's Oh, Men! Oh, Women! it told an amusing yarn of a psychoanalyst. In Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, by mingling homosexuality with a radiant Deborah Kerr, it produced ideal matinee drama...