Word: samuel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...return to the limits of graphic art, Arikha has produced some of the most remarkable images on paper since the death of Giacometti. Arikha's drawings of landscapes, old shoes and coats, his own face or that of a friend like Samuel Beckett, may seem frustrating at first. They look messy and disclose themselves slowly. None of the hard, wiry line of pen or silverpoint here; the brush (the kind used in Japan for sumi-e or ink painting) flits and stumbles across the roughly textured page, leaving behind tiny marks that seem knitted or crocheted together...
...Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of Government, said that in comparison to past scandals Watergate represents a "new form of misconduct" on the part of public officials...
...complaint's specific charge was that Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of Economics, and Arthur MacEwan, assistant professor of Economics, were not rehired last December 'solely because their recent research and teaching have been in radical economics...
...latter-day equivalent of Greek tragedy, Kott recommends, as a salient example, the spectacle of a paralyzed man confronting a woman half-buried alive: Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, "the final version of the Prometheus myth." Nor does Kott fail to provide the unerringly apt caption-Sophocles' dread-filled line, "Nothing surpasses not being born...
...Economics Department's decision last December not to rehire Samuel Bowles and Arthur MacEwen drew a storm of complaints from students who charged that the Department was biased and that they had no voice in their education. Those complaints have gone without any official answer from the Department or the Administration...