Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minds of many students. The University scoffed at suggestions that morality should enter into its financial planning when student civil-rights advocates suggested it divest itself of Mississippi Power and Light Co. stock. The University failed to stand up against the Massachusetts teachers' loyalty oath, and fired Samuel Bowles, professor of Economics, when he declined to sign it. Bowles was then forced to go to the expense of enjoining the University's action, until a parallel case involving an M.I.T. professor was settled. Most recently, the President's office arbitrarily banned educational television at a Vietnam Teach...
...Griswold's successor should be. Pusey also had to sift through proposals from alumni, consulted with fellow members of the Harvard Corporation, polled the 30-man board of overseers by telephone and telegraph. He followed the same procedure in seeking a Divinity School dean to replace retiring Samuel H. Miller...
...moved into general literature, publishing Louisa May Alcott, Edward Everett Hale, Emily Dickinson and William Prescott's histories. Admiral A. T. Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History remolded military thought when it appeared in 1890. Among Little, Brown's current authors are Samuel Eliot Morison, J. D. Salinger, Bertrand Russell, William Manchester, Peter De Vries, Ogden Nash, Gore Vidal. Issuing some 250 titles last year, the company's sales reached $11 million...
...efforts to get abreast of 1968 jargon and sexual tolerance, Samuel Taylor continues to live in the past. It speaks, well for the past. Taylor's new play Avanti, the offspring of now-forgotten works by S. N. Behrman and Philip Barry, already holds its own against the best Broadway comedies current; with a little rewriting, and one much-altered performance, it could succeed on a more absolute level...
...literary biography, notably Andrew Turnbull's Thomas Wolfe and Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway (Papa is also the subject of Irwin Blacker's novel, Standing on a Drum). Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, Lytton Strachey, Richard Wright, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nathanael West, André Gide and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also get full-length treatment; and there will be an autobiography from André Malraux, a second volume of Bertrand Russell memories, and a third of Harold Nicolson diaries...