Word: samsonized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down in the village where the Freshmen live, rowing activity centers about "Ma" Gerholz's Croften training table, where three of the championships eight got their spinach. "What Delilah did to Samson, what Frankle did to Johnny, are nothing compared to what we can do to Harvard," says...
...have the faith to transfer the policing of the world from unilateral power politics to the United Nations under a system of world law, our political "leaders" are re-enacting the role of Samson in the temple of the Philistines by perpetuating the insane anarchy of war, muttering the shibboleth of "national sovereignty...
Starting out in a serious vein with a selection from Handel's "Samson," Mozart's "Freemasons Chorus," and William Schuman's "Truth Shall Deliver," the two Clubs, singing together and then separately, wound up the program with a joint effort on "Bright College Years" and "Fair Harvard...
...this outsized (250,000 words) chunk of historical fiction, in which almost everything happens except the storming of the Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast's tutor. Among his friends and acquaintances: Daniel Boone, Tecumseh, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark...
Cecil B. De Mille (The Ten Commandments, King of Kings) said he planned to film Samson and Delilah...