Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casts of Landscape and Silence are each excellent, the more so considering the difficulty of the plays. Following Samuel Beckett, Pinter has stripped away all that is unnecessary, so that every word--and more importantly every silence--is crucial. Indeed, the high quality of these plays is best found in the intensity of their silences...
...When Samuel Tito Williams was arrested in 1947 for the bludgeon murder of a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl, eleven of the arresting detectives were given $50 bonds by a grateful neighborhood association. Few, including the jury, paid any attention to Williams' claim that his confession came after he had been beaten with "a blackjack, a rubber hose and a club" and burned with "lighted cigarettes and cigars." Sentenced to death, Williams was held in jail for 16 years before a federal court of appeals ruled that his confession had been coerced. Since then he has been fighting...
...SAMUEL BECKETT...
...earlier this week confronted James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts and chairman of the Commission on Inquiry, with their demands for review of recent allegedly politically-motivated "firings" of radical faculty, particularly Samuel S. Bowles, associate professor of Economics...
SOMETIME LAST SPRING I turned on my T.V. and found myself watching a Harvard professor, standing on the steps of the Federal courthouse, explaining to the people of Boston his special place in our society. As a scholar, Professor Samuel L. Popkin argued it was his function to search out the truth and pass it on to the rest of us--and to facilitate his performance in this role we should grant him immunity from testifying before the grand jury about the sources of his information...