Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ultimate goal--the summit of Mt. Adams. One particularly intriguing entry several years ago described the adventures of a party of February hikers. They had planned to use Crag as a base camp and to make daily climbs to the top of Adams and to the smaller peaks nearby--Samuel Adams and John Quincy Adams...
...detail how and when a special election would be called: new electors would be chosen in each state by the end of October, and the election held the following December. "The original intention of the framers was absolutely clear in debates in the Constitutional Convention," says Harvard Government Professor Samuel Huntington. They wanted new national elections held at the next regular opportunity, which, applied to present practice, would mean the first Tuesday of November...
...takes one to know one. Speaking at Briarcliff College in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., Journalist Tom Wolfe, 42, chided lawyers on both sides of the Watergate witness table for being impenetrable prose artists. For example, "Samuel Dash, a professor of law, I believe, says, 'Was this his own volitional action?' When translated, he really means 'Did he want to do it?' " As for New Journalism itself, Wolfe wasn't abandoning the Kandy-Kolored circumlocutions that had made him famous, but he claimed he was never going to talk about them again. Or as euphuistic Wolfe...
Those lines have a ring as old as the novel itself, which was born as romantic kitsch for women when Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded was published in 1740. But A Kiss From Satan was written this year and, even in the midst of a pornography boom, it and similar well-scrubbed (though timidly suggestive) paperbacks for women are spinning a new fortune for a Toronto-based publisher, Harlequin Enterprises. The firm's profits have more than tripled every year since 1970, and now stand at $1.6 million on revenues of $15 million. Harlequin, which...
...been calculated that if books continue to be written about Samuel Beckett at the present rate then by the end of the century their sum will rival that devoted to the top figures in world publishing history: Lincoln, Napoleon and Christ...