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This hint at sexlessness is further developed in another piece. Featuring yet another unique style, "Overture and Incidental Music for a `Midsummer Night's Dream'" develops a name in Shakespeare's play into a character, the Herm. This creature is simultaneously the source of desire and puzzlement to all the denizens of the forest--from Puck, who is a hairy, horny little bugger in Carter's fantasy, to Oberon and Titania...
Carter has turned the little Indian boy who catalyzes the action in Shakespeare's play into a hermaphrodite. Everybody wants him. The Herm, however, is different: "What does the Herm want? The Herm wants to know what `want' means...
...Butler was the only Crimson victor on the track. He blasted over the hurdles in 7.7 to nip Bulldog Herm Davis at the tape...
...strike of 40,000 owner-drivers of the trucks on which the nation's distribution system depends. But in a fishwifely spat with Allende, Ruiz contended that he had not been given the necessary authority, and quit. Allende gave the peacemaking task to an army man, General Hermán Brady, who soon reported that the strike was almost-but not quite-settled...
...Hawks, playing without 6'11" center Walt Bellamy and guard Herm Gilliam, will meet the Celtics April in the semi-final playoff in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association...