Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waiting for Godot, by 50-year-old Irish-born Samuel Beckett, who was once a sort of secretary to James Joyce, is one more of those writings that pose philosophic question marks with the emphasis of exclamation points. Like Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, Kafka's The Castle and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, Waiting for Godot makes who's who-and sometimes what's what-a kind of guessing game...
...showplace was scheduled to open with a meager ratio of only 30 works to every acre of pink marble halls. But in 18 years of skillful piloting, Director Finley has steered into the National Gallery outstanding private collections owned by such millionaire art lovers as Samuel H. Kress, Chester Dale and Lessing J. Rosenwald, and has watched the collection swell to more than 1,200 paintings and 326 sculptures. Under Finley the gallery gained a place among the world's first-rank art museums...
...rally Friday night, May 11, with "give-'em-hell" type speeches by Professors Samuel H. Beer and Seymour E. Harris '20, and a prominent woman Democrat will open the proceedings. Auditions for nominating speeches will also be held that night...
...Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government and chairman of the state ADA, answered Burke by saying "It is a basic principle of clean politics that the chairman of a state committee should never interfere in a primary...
Burke charged that the write-in drive for Stevenson was sponsored by the ADA and that the organization was "trying to take over the party." Samuel H. Beer, Professor of Government and chairman of the state ADA chapter, denied that the group had endorsed any candidate...