Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent play has now opened at Broadway's Lyceum Theater. The initial scenes of "Master Harold"...and the Boys are amiable, even cozy. It is a rainy late afternoon, and two blacks are tidying up the St. Georges Park Tea Room, a modest luncheonette. The elder and brighter, Sam (Zakes Mokae), putters about while Willie (Danny Glover), a simpler soul, mops the floor. The two interrupt their labors from time to time to polish up fox-trot and waltz steps for a much anticipated dance contest...
...pointlessness of wasting the SALT II treaty--signed in 1979 after five years of negotiation but never ratified by the U.S. Senate--is becoming increasingly apparent, even to such former detractors of the treaty as Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.). "START really means we've given up on SALT." Reagan said on Sunday, stating at one point. "Agreements that provide only the appearance of arms control breed dangerous illusions." In that he is quite right, as to a large extent the first two SALT treaties merely "choreographed" the continuing arms race...
...were known on campus. They worshiped their mentor, imitated him and worked endless hours with him exploring the new frontier of atomic physics. One of the significant accomplishments of the series is that it conveys to nonscientists the elusive quality of scientific passion. And one of the accomplishments of Sam Waterston, who plays the lead, is that he captures not only Oppenheimer's arrogance but his mesmerizing appeal...
Dugger takes the Johnson saga from the great-great-grandfather who did not fight at the Alamo as Johnson once boasted, through Grandfather Sam E. Johnson, who did not found Johnson City, Texas, as L.B.J. once claimed, to Father Sam Jr., a progressive state legislator who never realized his ambition of becoming a Congressman. Young Lyndon learned the art of the possible by tagging along as his dad cut deals and pulled strings, and when the older man turned to drink, Lyndon's iron-minded mother lashed the boy onward. She had him, at age four, reciting the Preamble...
...said, "freed our politics and our politicians from any sense of restraint by extolling self-generated, unaffiliated power as the best foot to place in the small of the back of the man in front of you." This is Emerson as the imperialist Rotarian. It is Emerson as Uncle Sam in a Nietzsche suit...