Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drawing a deep breath, Los Angeles' Mayor Samuel Yorty intoned: "Smog, transit, taxes, education, dangerous drugs, judicial appointments, bank charges, saving and loan charters, law enforcement and other great areas of state concern must be divorced from shoddy machine politics." Though his mammoth city has headaches enough of its own, the mayor's indictment was aimed at the Democratic administration in Sacramento. Thus, after years of feuding with Governor Pat Brown, Sam Yorty announced last week that he would challenge him for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in June...
...SADDEST SUMMER OF SAMUEL S by J. P. Donleavy. 124 pages. Delacorte Press...
...optimism and an overweening trust in the goodness of human nature. J. P. Donleavy's conte philosophique demonstrates that the things a man does not believe in can be as crippling as false faith. This is the opposite of Candide's optimism-despair. Donleavy's hero, Samuel S, does not suffer persecution by savages; his enemy is himself; he believes nothing...
...money. A countess offers him a permanent income as an opera escort and house pet. An American girl student offers love and even to take care of his frowsty digs. He refuses both, and his analyst gives him up as a bad job. By way of farewell to psychotherapy, Samuel S says: "This final session has given me the biggest insight of all. That if I am ever cured, I will never know it." The book ends with S in a state of collapse-nullity has been achieved...
...Samuel Bowles is not the first person Harvard has dismissed for refusing to sign the loyalty oath...