Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Dramatic Club's Evening With Pinter and Beckett is a fine survey of the tamer modern entertainments. It begins with Harold Pinter's The Collection, one of the quieter works of a very noisy playwright, and after an hour or so moves to a mime by Samuel Beckett (titled, with cheery deadpan, Act Without Words I). Illuminations, a festival of electronic echoes and throbbing lights reminiscent of the best parts of The Ipcress File, brings down the curtain...
...They are Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government; Richard J. Herrnstein, who will become professor of Psychology July 1; and Roger W. Brown, professor of Social Relations...
...pulls all emotional stops: his rhetoric sweeps and soars. Williams is inevitably compared with F. Lee Bailey, a more recently risen criminal lawyer. The main difference between them lies in the cases they handle. Bailey specializes in violence-tinged sensation involving such up-from-nowhere types as Dr. Samuel Sheppard, Carl Coppolino and the Boston Strangler. Williams is more the seeker of equal justice for well-known but scandal-haunted clients...
...opinion of Samuel Adams Green, 26, director of Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art, the trouble with most city park officials is that "they don't know a damn thing about contemporary art. They go around buying safe, conservative Moores, Baskins and Calders. They don't realize there are plenty of lively new people working in outdoor materials and outdoor scales." In the interest of public enlightenment, Green has now set up a month-long outdoor show of 15 gigantic sculptures by ten relative unknowns in Philadelphia's public parks and plazas. Four were done...
...bulbous coarseness of what he considers an "almost obscene flower." Willie, a spiky, tilted, angular beast with three legs and no head, was meant to be "an ugly, hostile thing slithering around on the floor"; it was titled by a fellow sculptor in honor of the groveling husband in Samuel Beckett's play Happy Days. Not all of Smith's imagery is negative. One of his works is a simple 10-ft.-high, well-proportioned arch that invites the viewer to pass through. "It is like a threshold," says Smith. "My friends say it looks sort of soft...