Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LOVER, by Harold Pinter, and PLAY, by Samuel Beckett, reach depressing but strangely playful conclusions about infidelity-Pinter with mystifying urbanity, Beckett with poetic obscurity...
...naming the sources from which Shakespeare worked, he simply makes assertions, and rarely bothers to prove them. In determining the date of Richard II, a subject on which there has been some difference of opinion, Rowse states simply "The play was written in 1595, for it draws on Samuel Daniel's poem, The Civil Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York"--and that is all the evidence we receive...
Black will head a group of trustees which includes Gov. Endicott Peabody '40, Chief Justice Karl Warren, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Richard Cardinal Cushing, composer Samuel Barber, AFL-CIO president George Meany, Gen. Dougian MacArthur, and novelists John Hersey and John Steinback...
...Including Baltimore's School Superintendent George B. Brain, Detroit's Superintendent Samuel M. Brownell, Historian-Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner, and President O. Meredith Wilson of the University of Minnesota...
...Animal. It is a rare father who appreciates a son with a talent better than his own. The Scottish Alexander Boswell, annoyed with Son James's apparently aimless career, writes in 1763 barely two weeks after James's famous meeting with Samuel Johnson: "Be more on guard for the future against mimicry, journals and publications, and endeavor to find out some person of worth who may be a friend." Heinrich Marx, a prosperous lawyer, rebukes his son Karl in 1837 for turning into a drone at the university and sadly agrees with the boy's mother that...