Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gentlemen from Washington's National Gallery of Art had every reason to be jubilant as they left the Manhattan penthouse of Dime-Store Tycoon Samuel Kress that day in 1939, but they also had reason to wonder about Mr. Kress's mood. "I feel," said one, "as though we had just become his sons-in-law, and that he's still not too sure of the marriage." Small wonder. The marriage in question was Kress's gift to the National Gallery of 416 paintings and 35 sculptures from his own beloved collection-the beginning...
...Good as the Count's. The life of Samuel Henry Kress could have been written by Horatio Alger, except for the fact that Kress never married the boss's daughter. Born in Cherryville. Pa., in 1863, he grew up a bookish boy who at 17 landed a teaching job in Slatington, six miles away. Kress's salary was only $25 a month, but he managed to save up enough money to open a novelty store in Nanticoke. Before long, he had a wholesale house in Wilkes Barre. By the time he died in 1955, there were...
...isolation that even conflict is impossible." Although Brecht abandoned the theater of the absurd for social protest, his isolation theme has been endlessly restated by the absurdists in terms of man's inability to communicate with, and relate to, his fellow man. In 1952, in Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett defined the assumption underlying the metaphysical quest of the theater of the absurd: the absence of God and the emptiness of God-bereft man. Beckett's theater is one of deep existential anguish: "The boredom of living is replaced by the suffering of being." Beckett's writing...
...Adds Dr. Earl Waldrop of San Antonio's Central Christian Church: "We began to realize that for no reason other than prejudice, we had discarded some of the beautiful aspects of worship. We had become more a meeting of fellowship than a group of worshipers." According to Dr. Samuel Miller, dean of Harvard Divinity School, ecumenicism has been a major influence in the liturgical revival...
...more than a year, outside interests have been covetously eying the Zimbalist block. Newspaper and Magazine Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse offered Mrs. Zimbalist $20 per share for her common stock, but lost interest as its market value skidded from a 1961 high of 16⅜ to 9⅜. Although he publicly denies it, West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, who got control of McCall Corp. in 1956, is reported to have thoroughly cased the prospect of buying the company. Other interested parties: ex-Senator William Benton, who made an early fortune in advertising and a later, larger one in the Encyclopaedia...