Word: samuel
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...recurring theme, since many of the men and women interviewed are over 65. In fact, younger writers get hardly any representation at all in this collection, and the "radical innovators"--Samuel Beckett, Nathalie Sarraute, Eugene Ionesco--have all been around for quite a while, Surely Shenker could have made room for some new faces by omitting a few of the more trivial pieces--for instance, "Howlers," a collection of high-school malapropisms only slightly above the level of Kids Say the Darnedest Things...
...chosen the Hunneman Corporation to assume management of the housing development once it is occupied. John Sharratt Associates, Inc. will be the architect for the development, with Samuel Glaser and Partners as associate architect...
Despite such occasional disappointments, expensive films of this kind are good for television movies in the same way that the David Selznick-Samuel Goldwyn-Irving Thalberg "prestige" productions were good for the movie industry in the '30s. They cause people who would not otherwise pay attention to the form to do so. But as with the old films, so with TV movies: the quick, deft westerns, mysteries and action melodramas that depend on well-established conventions may in the end exert a larger claim on our attention than their more pretentiously publicized rivals...
...deserve better than what is being served to us on the front page. More tragic, however, is that you are losing, I believe, the credibility and respect that you gained from serious journalism over the last ten years. Samuel Johnson observed that tradition is fragile, like a meteor which, once fallen, cannot be rekindled. In publishing what appears to be a series of personal vendettas aimed a the tarnishing of reputations through unproven accusations and half-stated implications, you have demonstrated its fragility by debasing a tradition some of us had relied on for truth. whether...
...April 15, 1865, just six hours after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and an accomplice rode up to the Maryland farmhouse of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. Booth needed treatment for the broken leg he had sustained in his leap from Lincoln's box to the stage of Ford's Theater, and, as the familiar story goes, he gave Mudd a fictitious name and kept his face hidden behind a muffler and false beard. Still, Mudd was convicted as a conspirator in the assassination plot and sentenced to life imprisonment. Though he was pardoned...