Word: hermann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bright lights, alarms and lack of privacy can frighten patients, impeding recovery or even precipitating fatal heart attacks. In neonatal centers, the infants are usually preemies and may require months, even years, of care before they are well enough to be released. Last year at Houston's Hermann Hospital, eight newborns spent a total of 95 months in intensive care units at a cost of $1,773,000. Even with this effort, not all babies survive; one died after eleven months...
...forecasts are that eventually only 800 will remain open. Content in the past to let their beer sell itself, some German brewers have now begun to advertise. Duisburg-based König-Brauerei, for example, has a campaign that uses such luminaries as Actress Maria Schell and Moneyman Hermann Abs, former board chairman of the Deutsche Bank, who are, the ads note, "loyal to the king...
...HERMANN HESSE, PILGRIM OF CRISIS...
...late '60s and early '70s, the spine-cracked paperback editions of Hermann Hesse (Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Magister Ludi) stood in a haphazard pile beside every mattress on the floor, next to the roach clips and Earth Shoes. The American counterculture claimed the Swabian mystic as a guru of its own discovery, its subterranean priest. That was perhaps an instructive case of self-absorbed audience imitating self-obsessed author. In fact, Hesse during his astonishingly long career had been appropriated by three other generations (in Germany, anyway) as their own secret voice. Hesse possessed a strange, lifelong affinity for adolescents...
...where you can stand at the basement door and spit on the roof of a three-story house?" Visiting a small German-colonized town in Missouri, Roueché reveals that the passage of more than a century has left the place astonishingly unchanged. If the little community of Hermann were to be picked up and set down somewhere in Germany, Roueché convincingly shows, most of its residents would hardly know the difference...