Word: hermans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earned a reputation for not returning Congressmen's phone calls. In October he was criticized for not warning key congressional backers of Israel that a joint U.S.-Soviet declaration on the Middle East was in the works. At about the same time he neglected to tell Representative Herman Badillo in advance that Carter planned to make a much-publicized walking tour of the South Bronx, the urban disaster area in Badillo's district. Last week House Democrats chided Moore and his White House colleagues for not putting up a solid enough front against compromise in the Senate...
...fact, Herman Melville was so wounded by critics that he wrote no fiction at all for 30 years. Says Psychoanalyst Yale Kramer, who is studying Melville's life: "He behaved like a child stubbornly remaining silent in a passive attempt at revenge." But even good reviews can bring on writer's block; they tend to paralyze by awakening great expectations. As Author Cyril Connolly, a part-time blockee, expressed it: "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising...
...would probably have finished at or close to the top. But instead of the predicted one-third turnout, a record 48% of the city's 1.9 million eligible Democratic voters went to the polls, and in the process made a hash of the pre-election surveys. Both Congressman Herman Badillo, who was born in Puerto Rico, and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, a black, ran better than expected, carrying districts that would otherwise have been Abzug...
...visit to Britain last May, Jimmy Carter is making an exception in her case to a new White House practice that opposition leaders are received by the Vice President. While in Manhattan last week, she discussed some of Britain's problems with TIME's London bureau chief Herman Nickel...
Nobody really minds that Tolstoy put words in Napoleon's mouth long after the event; it is the use of this technique for contemporaries, or the recent dead, that raises problems. Now that Herman Wouk is converting his bestseller The Winds of War into a television series, he was asked by Daniel Schorr about the propriety of giving to actors impersonating Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin words that the real figures never uttered. "You have touched a very live nerve," Wouk replied. "I don't know if anyone has the answer." But some try to answer: one successful scriptwriter...