Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pavilion, used but one week a year, features more than a thousand cushioned chairs, an art exhibit, and closed-circuit television inside and out. Still, the sales at Saratoga -American racing's most traditional and posh resort-are essentially unchanged since that evening in 1918 when Samuel Riddle bid up to $5,000 for a handsome chestnut colt. They named him Man O' War, and Fasig-Tipton -the company that conducts the auction for 5% of the gross-has been packing them in ever since. The rising price scales remain unaffected by recession, famine, or even an epidemic...
...trio of compulsive polyglots, Samuel Beckett (equally fluent in English and French), Vladimir Nabokov (a writer in Russian, English, French and possibly German) and Jorge Luis Borges (whose first work at seven was an English summary of Greek myths) are the men whom Steiner judges to be "the three figures of probable genius in contemporary fiction." Joyce teaching at his Berlitz school he takes as the prototypical modern artist, master of the "lost center." a practitioner of the "literature of exile...
...Chief Justice Warren Burger, he noted that "this duty rests on taxi drivers, Justices and the New York Times." Citing the British system as a good example, Acheson advocated a "severe Official Secrets Act" and a "self-governing body for the press" to stimulate more "self-restraint." He quoted Samuel Johnson's advice to Boswell not "to think foolishly...
...Died. Samuel R. Bronfman, 80, founder and president of Distillers Corporation-Seagrams Limited; in Montreal. Bronfman laid the foundations of his financial empire 54 years ago when he started a mail-order whisky business. Branching out into distilling during Prohibition, Bronfman went on to create the world's largest distillery. At 80, Bronfman still remained the astute chieftain and patriarchal head of a family-dominated firm. "I've set it up better than the Rothschilds," he once said. "They spread the children. I've kept them together...
...effect of this vote on the leave-of-absence rule appeared to be precedent-setting. Shortly after the vote, Samuel P. Huntington, chairman of the department, said, "I don't know of any case in recent years in which this sequence has been followed...