Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett. Pinter's couple let themselves go in uninhibited make-believe adultery, while Beckett's trio drone on bitingly and briefly about their adulterous affair...
...Samuel Beckett. 147 pages. Grove Press...
Fourteen members of the Divinity School faculty announced yesterday that they are "associating themselves" with the leaders of the Boston school boycott. The faculty group, which is headed by Samuel H. Miller, Dean of the Divinity School, will thus be open to prosecution if state authorities take legal action against the boycott...
...Died. Samuel Chotzinoff, 74, NBC's classical-music chief since 1941, who lured his good friend Arturo Toscanini back from Italy to conduct for NBC, became what some called "vice president for Toscanini," stayed on after the maestro retired to create topflight TV opera, commissioned Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, started Leontyne Price on her way to stardom; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...talent. He had, said Coleridge, "a greater range of knowledge than any other man in Europe," and King George III begged him to come to London as the royal physician (he refused, on the ground that he preferred to remain in Lichfield). The age's other great eccentric, Samuel Johnson, dismissed him as a provincial from an "intellectually barren" town. His current biographers tend to side with Coleridge, and there is little difference between them, but their books are less interesting as studies of genius than as revelations of the wild theorizing that passed for reason as England...