Word: samuel
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Last month, when Newspaper Publisher Samuel Newhouse bought a 15% slice of the Denver Post, it seemed certain that that was only the beginning. In the process of acquiring 14 newspapers, Newhouse has never been content with less than full possession, and before leaving Denver he hinted broadly that he planned eventually to own 100% of the Post. But Newhouse reckoned without the power-and the fury-of a woman...
August 7, Dean Samuel H. Miler, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity; August 14, Dr. Hans F. Hofmann, Associate Professor of Theology, Harvard Divinity School...
...Story of Ruth (Samuel 6. Engel; 20th Century-Fox) is that rare film, a Bible story done with taste and without lions. It is true that if Writer Norman Corwin has not actually jazzed up the Old Testament's four brief chapters, he has at least given them a recognizable beat-here a child sacrificed to a flame-bellied god, there a few slaves squashed by a toppling idol. But the liberties are taken with considerable skill, and most of them make entertainingly dramatic sense. The Bible says nothing about the origins of the young Moabite widow who tells...
...Jonson ("Shakespeare wanted art"), the Restoration and the Age of Reason argued that the Bard was a barbaric child of Nature whose war bled woodnotes wild violated the Aristotelian unities of time, place and action. His plots were a confusing mishmash of the tragic and comic. He was vulgar. Samuel Pepys confided to his diary that Hamlet "disgusts this refined age." Dryden called him "divine Shakespeare," but added smugly: "I have refined his language, which before was obsolete." Voltaire may have summed up his era's widespread judgment on the Bard: "A few pearls on a dunghill...
...Puritanism like a corset, and expressed their relief in "dancing, singing, eating, drinking, swearing, gambling, blaspheming, whoring, cockfighting, dogfighting, bearbaiting, bull-baiting, horse-baiting bonfire-burning, gunpowder-exploding." At Charles's coronation, his health was drunk so often that the streets were full of vomiting citizens, and Diarist Samuel Pepys wrote that he was never so "foxed" in his life...