Word: herman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Julia feels that she has betrayed her race. A romantic idealist, she struggles to convince herself that her love for Herman is a simple emotion, uncomplicated by their racial difference. But America's history of sexual relations between white men and Black women echoes of ugly racism: Southern gentlemen--even Jefferson--enjoyed frequent midnight strolls through their slave quarters, looking for Black women to sleep with; in most cases, these country squires took no responsibility for the slave children they fathered. Julia's female neighbors have not forgotten that sexual abuse and cannot help feeling that she allows Herman...
Wedding Band tells the story of Julia Augustine, a Black seamstress who lives in a secluded backyard where Herman, her white lover of ten years, can pay inconspicuous visits. In Childress' South Carolina of 1918, "mixed" affairs must be kept as clandestine as possible to prevent public humiliation, ridicule, or surprise late night visits from the local Ku Klux Klan. The two keep to themselves, celebrating their tenth anniversary alone in her shabby room with a small wedding cake. They profess undying love for each other and hope for the day when they can go North to marry. Yet guilt...
...study, reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine by Physiologist James White and Dr. Herman Froeb, examined the effects of smoking on 2,100 men and women. Within this group, nonsmokers who did not work in smoky environments came out best on tests of the lungs' ability to hold air and expel it. Those who had smoked more than 40 cigarettes a day for more than 20 years had the worst results. But nonsmokers who had worked for more than 20 years in smoke-filled areas had scores similar to those of light smokers (people...
...terms and arrangements of the American enterprise are changing. The entire American proposition has been built upon the premise of ever expanding opportunity, upon a vision of the future as a territory open-ended and always unfolding, upon ascendant history. "We are the heirs of all time," said Herman Melville. What happens if the future seems to be closing down, to be darkening? If nature, first an enemy to be subdued and then a resource to be exploited, is now an endangered victim of technology? The classic American salvation (clear the land! build! disembowel the mountains!) threatens to invert...
...DIED. Herman Tarnower, 69, cardiologist who won worldwide fame for his Scarsdale Diet; of gunshot wounds; in White Plains, N.Y. (see NATION...