Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concert, the second of three, began with a Concerto for violin, cello, and harpsichord by Couperin. Ruth Posselt, the new violinist, is the competent, unspectacular kind of performer who subordinates herself to the music at hand. Her easy-going interpretation was perfect for this comparatively light-weight work. 'Cellist Samuel Mayes, who appeared in all eight parts of the program, showed remarkable versatility. His tone was full and rich in the important solo sections, but in the later continuo passage he held himself down so that one could barely hear him over the harpsichord...
Results of last-minute Gailup and Roper polls released yesterday, indicate that Stevenson could pick up enough of the large "shaky and undecided vote" to carry the election, according to Samuel A. Stouffer, director of the Laboratory of Social Relations...
...under the sponsorship of the Zion Research Foundation of Brookline, Mass. The work is the climax of 72 years of scholarship, during which time the texts had been transcribed, and about a third of them translated into German by the late Kurt Sethe. Six years ago the Rev. Samuel A. B. Mercer of Worcester, Mass., a retired Episcopal minister, took on the job of completing the work in English. Buttressed by careful commentaries, the Pyramid Texts ($30.50 a set) present the fullest description known of the religion and philosophy, beliefs and superstitions of Ancient Egypt...
Speed the Journey. Born the very year that the pyramids were discovered, soft-spoken Samuel Mercer has spent a lifetime studying ancient languages. He has specialized in cuneiform and hieroglyphics, has compiled grammars in Assyrian, Ethiopic and Egyptian, written a definitive study of the tablets of Tell el-Amarna, been professor of Semitic languages and Egyptology at the University of Toronto. Since 1946 he has devoted his full time and energies to working on the pyramid texts...
...either case, kindly cancel my subscription at once. Samuel Armistead