Word: samuel
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Nobel Prize winners William N. Lipscomb, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, and MIT professor Samuel C.C. Ting remain in Sweden after receiving their Nobel awards at a ceremony last Friday. They are two of seven men who received the awards in the American sweep of this year's Nobel Prizes...
Three Government professors, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Samuel P. Huntington, and Graham T. Allison '62, are now serving as consultants for Carter's transition team, but none will confess to interest in--or expectations of receiving--government jobs...
...Prescott Chromicles purports to be a collection of first-person source material--journals, letters, literary sketches, etc.--culled from the archives of one very prominent American family. According to Fried, the Prescotts go way back--all the way to pious Samuel Prescott, who penned a Book of Confessions startlingly similar to John Winthrop's famous Journal. Samuel's descendants apparently managed to maintain a unique historical proximity to many of the most prominent figures in American politicla history, from William Penn to FDR. Even more surprisingly, they left behind an invaluable set of documents to tell the tale...
...most successful sections are those which mange to interweave the personal with the political. The entry for Samuel Prescott, for exampel, tells the perhaps n ot untypical story of one Puritan's growing tolerance for free expression, resulting in part from his own foray into sexual philandering. The sexual peccadilloes of Basil Litchfiled--who lives with a half-crazed wife and hides his homosexual yearnings from his Unitarian colleagues--also sustain dramatic interst...
...have everything I need." Traditionalists may find that in the process some of the poetry of the standard versions has been clarified out of existence. Often the results are blunt indeed: "Gossip is so tasty! How we love to swallow it!" (Proverbs 26: 22); or "You bastard!" (in I Samuel...