Word: herr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Germany and France, what is known as the "Herr Professor" syndrome often prevails. Government grants tend to go to the professor who heads the department; he then distributes the money as he sees fit, even though he may not be in the best position to evaluate the work of a promising newcomer. Nor do teachers and students communicate as easily as they do in the U.S., where there is a give and take between the generations. Says Professor Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, president of the West German Research Society: "In America, you have to be different to be accepted. West...
Perhaps if Coppola had succeeded in his efforts to recruit a star for the part, Willard might have commanded an audience's interest and empathy by sheer force of personal magnetism. Having no star, the director tried a more desperate solution: he commissioned Journalist Michael Herr (Dispatches) to write a narration that attempts to fill in Willard's personality ex post facto on the sound track. That narration-alternately sensitive, psychopathic, literary, gung-ho and antiwar-is self-contradictory and often at odds with Willard's behavior. It does not establish the protagonist as a credible figure...
...Harvard University Band: the first college band to spell on the field. The Marching Band plays at half-times for football games, hockey, basketball and Commencement. Generally irreverent, the band boasts its own smut collection and its perennial Herr Schneider initiates fresh men to the feminine wonders of college life...
More and more examinations of the war are also being published. The best of the war novels and memoirs, in many ways, is Michael Herr's Dispatches (1977). Herr, who spent a year in Viet Nam covering the war for Esquire, writes prose that resembles some weapon the Pentagon developed especially for Viet Nam-hallucinatory, menacing, full of anxiety, death and a stunning, offhanded sort of accuracy. Herr is a writer with the talent of a smart bomb. Like James Webb in his fairly straightforward 1978 novel Fields of Fire, Herr is able to locate the thing inside...
...learning. He felt that the Hanfstaengl scholarship at Harvard would be a contradiction of all that great University stands for." In a somewhat different tone, the San Diego Union crowed that by "rejecting a scholarship from a Hitler henchman, Harvard hoists the college colors over German," adding "and is Herr Hitler's face crimson!" The New York Sun carried a letter from "an old Yale man" who said that "naturally and properly, I have always had a rather slight opinion of Harvard and all its works. That's all over now. I am as proud of Harvard...