Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's Democratic Representative Samuel S. Stratton picked up some publicity in a vain try for his party's gubernatorial nomination. But Republicans outregister Democrats in his new district, and he is up against a pert state senator Mrs. Janet Hill Gordon...
...Allen, soprano; Regina Sarfaty, mezzo; Loren Driscoll and George Shirley, tenors; William Murphy, baritone; Donald Gramm and Robert Oliver, basses; Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia). A brightly performed addition to the growing collection of Stravinsky's works conducted by the composer himself. At Stravinsky's own request, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Roger Sessions play the piano parts in Les Noces, and in this and the other works Stravinsky shapes performances of water clarity and rhythmic fire. Ragtime is the album's special treat...
...Real Business. Andover's founder was Samuel Phillips Jr., a good Calvinist who began to worry about the country's "decay of virtue, public and private" around the time he nearly blew himself up making powder for the Continental Army. To head off decay, the 26-year-old Phillips got his father and uncle to give cash for a school to teach boys "English and Latin Grammar, Writing, Arithmetic, and those Sciences wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living...
Equally impressed was Samuel's Uncle John Phillips, a sometime preacher turned moneylender (at 15%), who founded the second Phillips in his own town of Exeter, N.H. Andover was soon awash with Lees of Virginia, New England Quincys, Lowells, Longfellows. Samuel F. B. Morse arrived at eight and ran away. Many a poor farm boy walked 50 miles carrying his suitcase and a headful of Greek grammar to enter the best school around...
...statement on behalf of the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate will appear over the names of Samuel H. Beer '40; professor of Government; Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government; Frank B. Freidel, professor of History; Charles M. Haar, professor of Law; Seymour E. Harris '20, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy; V.O. Key, Jr., Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government; Arthur A. Maas, professor of Government; Ernest R. May, associate professor of History; Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government; and Donald H. Menzel, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, joined in the endorsement of Ted Kennedy...