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News analyst Peter Shapiro, who alleges that he was a student in English 166, writes in The Crimson (2/8/74) that Samuel Beckett is an "English-born absurdist writer...
There are so many sparkling expressions in "first book of public prose" by Vladimir Nabokov that I have to give you some of them right away. Asked by an interviewer to comment on the recurrent linking of his name with those of Beckett and Borges: That play-wright and that essayist are regarded nowadays with such religous fervor that in the triptych you mention, I would feel like a robber between two Christs. Quite a cheerful robber, though. On Hemingway:...I read him for the first time in the early forties, something about bells, balls, bulls, and loathed, it. Comparing...
Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, in a production by Andre Gregory's Manhattan Project, an avant-grade theater group which I guess is based in Manhattan. It's about the end of the world, I believe, or at least the end of its characters. Opens tonight at 8 at the Loeb...
...theater group headed by a guy named Andre Gregory in Manhattan. As I recall their production involved lots of vaudeville-type stuff and so on and got good reviews and is coming to the Loeb at 8 p.m. on Monday, staying until Wednesday, and being followed by Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME...
...Beckett's HAPPY DAYS is opening at the Loeb Ex tonight at 8:30. It's a two-character play with two acts, I believe, one of whom is buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her neck in the second, and The Crimson's expert on Beckett says it's not his best play. But how bad can it be? Till Saturday...