Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intelligence is not enough to save him. Samuel Carter seems to have it all--a beautiful wife, a bright little boy and a dazzling career--but he is a traveler in the dark." Unfortunately, both the bitterness and the self-righteousness of this 40-year-old cynic prove unbearable. Sam preaches his doctrine of atheism and the supremacy of intelligence with more offensive zeal than the loudest Moral Majority proselytizer. Told for so long about his brilliance, Sam comes to believe that he does, in fact, know the truth about everything...
Though best known to the American public as Chuck Yeager, Sam Shepard has spent most of his time for the past twenty years not as an astronaut, nor as an actor, but as a playwright. And it was as a playwright that Shepard came to Boston last month to stage a production on the Loeb mainstage with Shepard's friend and collaborator avante garde director Joseph Chaikin...
...understand a tourism official glossing over such aspects of Israeli life. Yet this sam attitude surfaces in the views of many Israelis:" Americans aren't aware of what's going on, they won't understand it," one said. In fact, there is more room for the discussion of the ugly aspects of Israeli life-like the oppression of Arabs-in Isareal than there is here. And when one does raise the questions here. American Jews often feel like they are being attacked...
...MANY of you drool whenever you hear that Marsha Norman or Sam Shepard is having of one of their latest plays experimented with or even staged at the American Repertory Theatre? Unlike Norman and Shepard, student play-wrights at Harvard, in the past, have had few opportunities to see their scripts put on the stage. Well, if you happen to be someone who keeps reams of original works in your desk, or even if you have only written one dramatic opus, you can now submit it for a new project in which undergraduate writers will be able to see other...
...some deference. Dan Rather's defiance of Nixon, scandalous at the time, began the real change. Now the preferred style is a harrying, rapid-fire crossexamination, not hostile but not chummy either. The masters are Ted Koppel ("But, sir, you haven't answered my question"), Bill Monroe, Sam Donaldson. They allow their subjects no easy outs or blurred distinctions. It's show time. Mixed in with these are opinionated questioners, such as George F. Will and Robert Novak, who bring decided views over from their editorial-page columning. Put together Donaldson's blunt demeanor and Will...