Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psychologist Samuel Z. Klausner asserted last night that anti-Russian sentiment in the U.S. has become a "social norm," similar in many ways to the hatred of Jews in Nazi Germany...
Faith retains its meaning in "this terrible world," Samuel H. Miller, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, asserts in the Dec. 5 issue of Look. "Given our world and our experience," it is still sensible to believe in God; in the decency and dignity of man; in the future as a fitting world for our children...
...Died. Samuel Zemurray, 84, longtime boss of the United Fruit Co., a hard-knuckled Russian immigrant who carved out a Central American business empire in the early 1900s by such tactics as engineering a Honduran revolution, gained control of United Fruit in 1932 and ran it for nearly two decades with the brusque earthiness of a man who preferred the company's tropical plantations to its Boston board rooms; of Parkinson's disease; in New Orleans...
...Samuel Abbott has transformed himself into a most excellently bloated and insufferable Tolloller. He has managed, somehow, to blend the most absurd elements of Oscar Wilde, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov into one vast horror of inane snobbery and scented incompetence. Only Mr. Abbott's Tolloller could have successfully produced, as he did, the quintessential Gilbertian line: "We were boys together;--at least...
...Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. No biography could replace Boswell's, but this one, written four years before Bozzy's and then chased out of print by literary feudists, is well worth the time of Johnson fans...