Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jack MacGowran in the Works of Samuel Beckett. What do you give to a man who has the Nobel Prize? Answer: the love, beauty, truth and artistry of Actor Jack MacGowran...
...SAMUEL PISAR Paris...
...earth is every man's hell some of the time. From man to man, the span of suffering and the sense of damnation varies. For some, the searing pain, the numbing descent into nothingness lasts minutes or hours or days; for others, weeks, months and years. It is Samuel Beckett's special vision to see man's entire life as a torment, a flaying of the heart, a hell without...
...this is admirably conveyed by Jack MacGowran in the Works of Samuel Beckett. A fellow Irishman, MacGowran can claim a friendship and affinity with Beckett attested to by a BBC play, Eh, Joe, specifically written for him by the Nobel-prizewinning playwright. With a seamless unity MacGowran has assembled a one-man reading session, principally from Beckett's novels (Malone Dies, Molloy, The Vnnameable) and plays (Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, Endgame). Cloaked in a black-spattered coffin of a coat, head and body shaken with keening tremors, and eyes stony with grief, MacGowran...
...faculty member, however, took issue with his colleagues. Samuel Huntington, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, said: "The administration is committed to gradual disengagement of ourselves from South Vietnam. There are going to be ups anddowns in this process-and although it is an escalation, it is nowhere as big an escalation as Cambodia last...