Word: samuel
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...INFLUENCE OF Wizard on generations of pinball machines to come can only be guessed at; suffice it to say, it will be vast. For now, all one can do is hail, as Samuel Beckett hailed with unfathomed prescience more than twenty-five years ago, the "system, of singular beauty and simplicity, which consists in saying Bally...
...Rebuttal. That was indeed the case at last week's hearing; no Administration witness showed up to rebut the testimony of ex-CIA Officer Samuel A. Adams, an analyst of Viet Cong strength for the agency in 1965-67. He charged that the CIA conspired with the military and other U.S. intelligence agencies to hide the Communists' true military strength from the American public in 1967 for political reasons and ended up misjudging the potential scope and ferocity of the Tet assault. Adams said that while U.S. officials were claiming that Communist forces in South Viet Nam totaled...
...fact, says Luckman's project chief, Samuel M. Burnett Jr., the stands can be maneuvered by muscle power alone. All it could take to prepare the stadium for baseball next spring is some season-end shoving by the football team...
...affliction. Many modern novelists, given the temper of the times, have viewed the world as a grim, inhuman place, and that view has paralyzed them as much as it has inspired them. Practitioners of the Literature of Impotence and Exhaustion, for example, have tended to become impotent and exhausted. Samuel Beckett, unable even to bewail further the impossibility of expression, has written nothing of significance for twenty years now, except for a few anguished fragments (his publishers have taken to offering new tran-slations of old, discarded texts). John Barth, last he was heard from, was searching for a literary...
Krapp's Last Tape, Play, Come and Go, and other short plays by Samuel Beckett are being performed at the Newbury St. Theater, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. in Boston, tonight and tomorrow at 8. Tickets...