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...felt like one of the main problems [was] that we were publicizing it with posters and t-shirts,” Samson F. Ayele ’09 said of the concert. “The way to really power out tickets is to get people personally involved in the selling of tickets...
...Samson F. Ayele ’09, from the East Yard, has financial goals in mind...
...Samson F. Ayele ’09, who attended the event after hearing about it from a friend, said that LaVergne was one of the best speakers he had ever heard...
...Samson's exasperation at these self-important triflers and their chirping Oxbridge accents is funny and justified, but it is also somewhat obsessive. He cannot stay away from the subject. He mentions an American agent who dresses too well, and this reminds him of Dicky Cruyer's kind: "The public-school senior staff at London Central spent just as much money on their Savile Row suits' and handmade shirts and Jermyn Street shoes, but they wore them with a careless scruffiness that was a vital part of their snobbery. A real English gentleman never tries; that was the article...
...measure of Deighton's considerable skill is that despite Samson's chronic grousing, anyone who starts Berlin Game is likely to persist through to the end of London Match. The story could have been brilliant if some ferocious editor had slashed it ruthlessly to one taut volume. Even so, the texture is wonderfully gray and grainy, and the scenes between Volkmann and Samson in the first and third novels are authoritative. Samson's predicament is a metaphor of middle age, if anyone should need one. And in the days of constant spy revelations, the central questions continue to haunt...