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When Alan Schneider died in London in 1984 as a result of injuries sustained in a traffic accident, the American theater lost a director who had staged the U.S. or world premieres of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Tennessee Williams' Slapstick Tragedy. Schneider personified the central virtue, and failing, of serious American stage artists: he so prized his integrity that he generally disdained Broadway and mistrusted popular success. He spent most of his later years directing novices at regional or university theaters, rather than have to contend...
...oldest Christian church in continuous use in the Western Hemisphere. To its parishioners, said Rector James Hohlfeld of St. Matthews, the British medieval church "will serve as a demonstration of the Anglican tradition." That heritage can sometimes be difficult to maintain. At present, the rector's assistant, Samuel Scheibler, told the Orange County Register, "we're surrounded in Southern California by a high-tech, ultramodern environment and high-tech, ultramodern Christianity...
...divided over the issue of whether Europe could stimulate its economies more without risking higher inflation. Mast pointed out that West Germany, Britain and France have already introduced tax cuts. Any stronger measures, he indicated, could bring about more price increases and higher interest rates. Mast was backed by Samuel Brittan, an assistant editor of the Financial Times London, who felt that government action push growth would result in "some of the inflationary dangers that made our flesh creep a few years...
...Gorbachev. Hold it, please. I have to think. Didn't I read something by Octavio Paz that fits in here? Or was it Pia Zadora? Where is my authoritative, I've-studied-this-for-years lead sentence? Please, God, let me discover an apt quotation from someone other than Samuel Johnson. You have to sound as if you knew it all along. You have to shape your column too--mostly Doric, a Corinthian fluting when they least expect it. It's work. Whatever the others say, it's work...
...Nigeria [WORLD, Feb. 17] was encouraging to all Nigerians in the U.S. as well as those in Nigeria. The Western press has for so long painted a depressing picture of Africa. More important is the effort of President Badamasi Babangida to inspire Nigerians to live within their means. Samuel Iwu Camden...