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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts of Beckett's life are fairly well known, and Bair adds nothing major to them. But her accretion of small details softens the hard edges of Beckett's known past and published works. Born into a prosperous Irish Protestant family in 1906, Beckett was a crashingly normal, if sometimes diffident lad up through his graduation from Trinity College, Dublin. His skill with languages brought him a two-year fellowship in Paris and the promise of a teaching post at Trinity when he finished. In Paris, Beckett joined the circle of acolytes surrounding James Joyce; the young Irishman...
...second memo, Carter himself requested that his Cabinet officers make themselves available "at least twice each month" to participate in election-year campaigning for Carter-favored Democrats. Although Carter emphasized that such activities were to be in addition to the normal work week, a follow-up memo from Jordan informed Cabinet members...
...paved with emeralds and where there is an angel at every street corner and where God Himself, old but fit, strolls the streets of Jerusalem with his walking stick in the evening like a devoted senior citizen. In Jerusalem, so believed this businessman/ poet, the Jews would become a normal and healthy people of peasants and soldiers and then even surely an exemplary nation, "a light unto the nations," pioneers of universal redemption...
...very dark under the stage) I came to the Mather House dining hall after dinner on Wednesday out of sheer curiosity. Would the production feature midgets? Dachsunds? My questions were answered right away as I walked in, and was confronted by a bevy of real, live, normal-sized troupers who charmed their way into my heart with some hefty renditions of some hefty Broadway show-stoppers. The show stopped each time a song ended, as the ten talented cast members re-positioned themselves on the stage for the next number. Speaking of numbers, there were 30 numbers lifted...
Quincy grabbed an early edge in the women's A race but by the time they settled to normal racing cadence the Kirkland crew blew past everyone and proceeded to win by 14.6 seconds...