Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suited to presenting these a traditional works than Boston (or Cambridge, if you will). The Hub has a tremendously progressive musical history. One of the four concerts will be devoted exclusively to the presentation of Harvard composer Earl Kim's new music/theater work called Narratives, based on texts by Samuel Backett...
...SAMUEL JOHNSON by W. Jackson Bate Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 646 pages...
...books have ever more deserved that worn encomium "long awaited" than Walter Jackson Bate's biography of Samuel Johnson. "Like so many others who have thought to write on Johnson," Bate observed in his earlier book on the subject (1955), "I have found that every year that passes leaves one feeling less qualified to do it." But undergraduates who thronged to his celebrated lectures on Johnson at Harvard would not have been disheartened by such a modest dis claimer. Even so, Bate's biography surpasses every expectation. It is an achievement that rivals Richard Ellmann's James...
...patient is again suffering from aftereffects of the March heart attack. His latest hospitalization followed an extremely active week in which Begin's schedule included a daylong tour of Yamit, one of Israel's new towns in northern Sinai, and a tension-filled meeting with U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis, in which Begin was informed in advance of the joint U.S.-Soviet statement. In a TV interview early last week, Laniado flatly blamed Begin's current illness on the talks with Ambassador Lewis. "This conversation," said the doctor, "almost shocked him and tired him so much that...
...operation several years ago left him quite frail, Partridge spent his days in carrel K-1 of the British Museum Library, reading everything from pulp novels to plays (consuming "about 80% of all comedies written in English between 1530 and 1970" for his latest work). In the tradition of Samuel Johnson, Partridge works alone, disdaining group effort, computer printouts, even note cards. Instead, he painstakingly records entries in his old-fashioned hand in large exercise books...