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Word: samsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Chambers' mother-in-law, Mme. Rene, his wife, and his daughter Conny become succubi--a group of seductive demons who have usurped the place of a weakening Deity. Mary is a priestess, and Jay Samson, another law student who is living in the house, is a lost soul who has surrendered to evil. Jean Rene, Mme. Rene's husband, is an old soldier who detests Chambers' (or God's) aversion to violence. Now we have every character in the play crammed into a neat, symbolic, gift-wrapped package, with Wake's last words as a decorative bow: "Where...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: The Chambers | 3/22/1965 | See Source »

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12--Penn's bid for the squash upset of the year ended when Steve Samson hit a hot streak to have Harvard a 5-4 victory today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Top Penn; Extend Victory Streak; Simpson's Win Decides | 2/13/1965 | See Source »

...Bible." Christopher Fry apparently was not told this because, although the Bible gives no hint what instrument Cain used in killing Abel, the Fry Bible does. In showing the world's first fratricide, Fry has the psychotically jealous Cain pick up an ass's jawbone-si, si, Samson, an ass's jawbone-and bash Abel. The jawbone was custom-built out of hard rub ber. Cain missed Abel's upper cranium the first time he used it, and the scene had to be interrupted for nearly a week until the black and blue patch subsided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Location: The Bible as Living Technicolor | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Ominous Cloud. In addition to Lucia, the Met is mounting new productions of Samson et Delila and Salome. In January, Leontyne Price will sing Cosí fan Tutte for the first time, followed by the conducting debut of William Steinberg (TIME, Sept. 11) two months later. In March, after an absence of seven years, Maria Callas will make her long-awaited return to the Met to sing Tosca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Behind the Nervous Curtain | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...scales this evening at 15 stone 3 lbs. and David at 14 stone 3 lbs. David's manager said this evening, 'the odd stone could make all the difference.' " The biblical newscast concludes with a brief theater review: "At the first night of The Gaza Strip, Samson, this year's Mr. Israel, brought down the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Banana with Appeal | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

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