Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS will provide some 23% of the world's electricity by 1980, predicts Samuel Untermeyer II, General Electric Co. reactor expert. Atomic power projects are increasing so fast that a recent $200 million Government program for peacetime industrial development of the atom by private companies "has been dwarfed before it is well under...
...College itself, date back at least to the time when Harvard students first took an interest in young women. (This latter date seems to have succeeded the College's founding by more than a century). Restrictions were a definite necessity by 1770, when, according to Samuel Eliot Morison, it was reported that "2 women of ill fame" had "spent the night in a certain college chamber...
...Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, another philosophic piece, was touched only by tedium. The setting is a desolate swamp where for eternity two hoboes talk about how bored they are. They are waiting, as you might suspect, for Godot, a nobleman who will bring salvation from their misery. During the evening, three symbols of humanity stroll past, Godot never appears and the dialogues about boredom become more persuasive by the minute. Even allowing for the innovations in technique, I found Godot on evening of baggy-pants comedy and penny-dreadful philosophy with little power, wit, or charm...
...Samuel Cardinal Stritch, archbishop of Chicago, last week banned from the Roman Catholic churches in his archdiocese some of the country's favorite church music as "unliturgical." The cardinal's authority: Pope Pius X (1903-14), who, in his encyclical Motu Proprio, cited "sanctity and goodness of form" as necessary to sacred music. Among the forbidden titles, many of which have also been banned in other dioceses: the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, originally written for the theater, and several Ave Marias, including Schubert's, originally a concert number; Verdi's, from the opera Otello; Mascagni...