Word: samsonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PETER H. SAMSON...
...thesis-that esthetic reverence for nature must keep pace with scientific exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master; and also the sooty-haired Samson of British industrialization, which threatened to flatten their walled gardens and blot out their bits of blue...
...HENRY SAMSON...
...mistaken identity: 1) because he had concluded his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace with a few lines from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a lot of people got the idea that Keynes himself had written them; 2) another time he quoted 20 lines of Milton's Samson Agonistes, and was paid for them "at so much a word . . . though my glory was a little dimmed by their being printed as prose...
...best time, not the worst. There will be others to follow, but his memory will be, in the world security talks, a touchstone to sound principles by. I suspect he will be the most potent of influences, being dead. . . . I echo the closing words of Milton's Samson Agonistes...