Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Samuel Huntington, professor of Government, who helped prepare the committee's report, yesterday said that the central problem is that the expanding number of men now eligible for the draft far outstrips the needs of the military. Thus the draft board is faced with eliminating men according to a rational scheme...
...first act of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days Winnie, the heroine, finds herself telling a little story. It's about a couple named Shower (or Cooker) who stand and watch Winnie for a while, Winnie being buried up to her waist in a mound of earth. Mr. Shower (or Cooker), after drooling some obscenities, asks "what's the idea? what does it mean?" The success of Happy Days is to provide an answer so subtle and dramatic that the audience, in reaching for it, becomes a virtual participant in the play...
...OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The historian-admiral draws heavily on his earlier works to portray the sweep of the history of all American peoples. His perspective on recent history is naturally close-up and highly personal, but the book is admirable and solidly readable nonetheless...
...Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, supported Johnson's move on the grounds that John Barlow Martin, former U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, has reported to the President that the revolt is controlled by Communists. Beer, an acquaintance of Martin, stated that Martin should be well acquainted with the situation...
...Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government, stated that although ho feels it was justifiable to send troops to the Dominican Republic to evacuate foreigners, he thinks President Johnson was premature in labeling the revolt Communist controlled. Huntington said that the presence of our troops "weakened the reform elements, and support should have been given to former President Juan Bosch...