Word: samuel
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Professor Samuel Beer considers that the six term-time paper assignments in Social Sciences 2 are "the most important pedagogical device in my course." His section men, Michael Tanzer and Norman Pollack agree, stressing the improvement over the course of the term of their students' ability to present a coherent argument, to marshal facts to support it, to organize effectively, and to express themselves clearly. Reuben Brower assigns four or five papers in his English 162, as does Robert P. Wolff in Social Sciences 140. Richard Poirier, in his courses on American and English litera- ture, is another who gives...
...guilty from contact with any part of existing society. They want to strip bare and dig down to a hoped-for bedrock showing no trace of an earlier passage of man. This is what Mr. Allen Ginsberg means when he says that man himself is obsolete; this is what Samuel Beckett and others are trying to show us on a stage where no responses are predictable or congenial; this is what Mr. Henry Miller is explaining at length in works where visions of love and feasts of sexuality outrank and displace all other concerns...The only acceptable...
Happy Days (by Samuel Beckett) pursues the playwright's favorite thesis that life is slow death. The setting is a scorched plain, blazing with light. Throughout Act I, Winnie, the so-year-old heroine, is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth; throughout Act II, she is buried up to her neck. So much for action and plot. For subplot, her husband Willie scuttles in and out of a hole behind the mound, and, keeping his back to the audience, leafs through a yellowed newspaper...
...other course beckons at this barely civilized hour: Professor W. J. Bate's ambitious survey of the history of English literary criticism from then till now (Eng. 192). Bate, the only man on the Faculty who can make Samuel Johnson come to life, gives lectures that are a model of magnificence, and cannot be too highly recommended...
...Harvard Law School and the Harvard Law School Association Presented a plaque yesterday to Samuel Williston, '82, Dane Professor of Law, Emeritus, on his one-hundreth birthday...