Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still on?" he would ask. Writer Ray Kennedy and Senior Editor Jesse Birnbaum both had separate talks with Bing, took an exhaustive tour of the new house from the Top-of-the-Met restaurant to the basement practice rooms eight floors below, and saw rehearsals of the opening work, Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra...
...christen the offspring, Bing had scheduled the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra. Never was a musical event launched in such a tide of pageantry and publicity...
...Beiliss Case in Kiev, 1911, in which a Jew was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian child and of milking his blood for the purpose of making Passover matzos. The incident, followed by an obscene wave of antiSemitism, was documented in a bleak narrative by Maurice Samuel in Blood Accusation, published this year. Malamud coincidentally worked on the same gruesome subject, but he has gone beyond journalistic intention...
Brotherhood Week was quickly suspended when Samuel William Yorty, 56, the tough and peppery mayor of Los Angeles, appeared on the scene. His city had attracted national attention with the Watts riots, and a second McCone report last month drew attention once more to the needs of the Negro there. Yorty, who disdains reading from prepared texts, appeared with an assortment of somewhat disorganized exhibits that seemed to affect the committee much as a red flag affects a bull. And, not least, Bobby Kennedy and Abe Ribicoff, who as Governor of Connecticut had been among the first to support Jack...
...scene is lowdown and swinging, too, a few blocks away at Pepper's or Turner's Blue Lounge, or out on the West Side at Smoot's or Silvio's. Indeed, such a wealth and variety of authentic blues abounds in Chicago today that Musicologist Samuel Charters says: "It's the last place left in the country where a living music is still played in local bars and neighborhood clubs. It's what New Orleans used to be like in the '30s, what Memphis was like...