Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, spoke against Bossert's proposal, saying the Core proposal "has too much promise to be given...
Some observers believe that the smoking war cannot be understood without a bit of psychological insight. One is Manhattan Psychiatrist Samuel V. Dunkell, who sees the whole thing as struggle between macho and puritan impulses. Reformed smokers, he says, tend to be the most intractable opponents of the weed. "I've noticed when people stop smoking," he says, "that it's part of a calculated campaign of reform of the personality. They do it like a reformation in religious terms, and they feel that they have to convert others." A Tenafly, N.J., psychologist agrees...
Anyone who ever sat through a lecture in English 140b, "The Age of Johnson," had to expect it. Last week, the awards committee down at Columbia made it official, awarding Walter Jackson Bate '39, Lowell Professor of the Humanities, a Pulitzer Prize for his massive biography, "Samuel Johnson...
...sort of a mini-hydrogen bomb," says Weapons Analyst Samuel T. Cohen of the so-called neutron bomb. Cohen should know. In the late 1950s, as a Rand Corp. consultant to the Air Force, he was the first to draw the military's attention to the possibility of making a new type of nuclear weapon. It would do the bulk of its damage not by heat or concussive force, but by a flood of high-energy subatomic particles called neutrons. Cohen, who has no academic credentials beyond a bachelor's degree from U.C.L.A., wanted to create a relatively...
Gore Vidal, author, reflecting on his craft: "Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare had perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about five and Samuel Beckett one-and perhaps a clone of that one. I have ten or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them...