Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LEYTE (455 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...Philippines was set in motion. By campaign's end, whatever chance Japan had of winning the war in the Pacific was irrevocably lost. The battle for the Gulf of Leyte decisively shifted the fortunes of war, and it is this action that dominates the twelfth volume of Samuel Eliot Morison's massively conceived and brilliantly executed account of U.S. naval operations in World War II (to run through 14 volumes...
Since existentialism includes a large number of literary and semi-literary works, the question arises as to what literature is "existential" and what is not. Professor Earle regards Sartre's literary work as "realist" rather than existential. "For my money," he said, "Samuel Beckett is doing the most authentic existentialist writing...
...Pleasure of His Company (by Samuel Taylor, with Cornelia Otis Skinner) is the first suavely managed drawing-room comedy in several seasons. With Actress Skinner's help, Playwright Taylor-on whose shoulders, more than anyone else's, has fallen the opera cape of the late Philip Barry-has contrived a bright tale of the prodigal father who, turning up for his daughter's wedding, turns everything around him upside down. And Cyril Ritchard, on whose shoulders have fallen both acting the prodigal and directing the play, has added greatly to the gloss...
...Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, also upon approval will serve as acting dean until the return in the spring of Reginald D. Phelps, Associate Dean of GSAS, who is presently on leave from the University...