Word: hermann
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...completely independent man," declares German Conductor Hermann Scherchen. "I do not have to conduct works I don't like." And he doesn't. In fact, for 35 years, Scherchen repeatedly refused invitations to conduct in the U.S. because the programs offered were too conventional for his tastes. "There is an extraordinary prejudice in America," he said, "to do works of commercial interest. Beethoven's 'Eroica,' Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique' -fine music, but I've done them before. I desire to do things of special interest...
...Died. Hermann Hagedorn, 82, biographer of Theodore Roosevelt, a sometime playwright who, after meeting the old Bull Moose at a rally in 1916, became an armchair Rough Rider, devoted the rest of his life to chronicling the T.R. legend in five highly readable, painstakingly detailed books (The Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill); of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...martyrology of local saints who had died for the faith-and similarly many towns in modern Germany have their heroes, many of them virtually unknown outside the country. Lübeck, for example, conducts interdenominational religious services every year honoring three Catholic priests, Edward Müller, Hermann Lange and Johannes Prassek, and an Evangelical pastor, Karl Friedrich Stellbrink. Arrested in 1942, the four men became good friends in prison and died together at Hamburg in November...
...studies for three years, worked in advertising, teaching and sales to support his family while trying to find another prelate who would accept him. At one point, Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing put in a bid-but, like Carroll, was turned down by the Vatican. Last year Bishop Hermann Volk of Mainz agreed to provide Beck, who speaks German, with an assignment, and Rome finally agreed...
Congress, says Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, will have to learn the difference between applied research (in which a man knows what he is looking for) and basic research (in which he does not). "When spending money on an applied device," he says, "you have to question the need for it. But when spending money on fundamental research that may change our whole way of looking at nature, the question of the need is premature...