Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SAMUEL BECKETT...
...working on a major biography of Samuel Johnson, which he expects to publish next fall and is editing the "Biographia Literaria," a collection of Coleridge's philosophy and criticism...
EMPTY. The word is printed on publicity posters and hung on bulletin boards. It advertises the current Loeb Ex production of Samuel Beckett's two plays Play and Come and Go. White and uncluttered, the poster seems to defy what an advertisement should be. It suggests nothing of the plot, and offers no commonplace images, not even a prominent name. Just "Empty" and small print. But the poster is appropriate. It informs, Even though his first play was produced 24 years ago, Samuel Beckett's works still seem jarring and bizarre. And no wonder. Although his works may be recognized...
THERE WAS ONCE a time when family wealth, a well-known Yankee name and a Harvard education could take a man far in Massachusetts politics. The tradition began early with people like Samuel and John Quincy Adams and has continued--with minor ethnic variations--to the present day. Two former United States Senators from Massachusetts, Leverett Saltonstall'14 and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, who were a part of that tradition, and whose political significance went far beyond Massachusetts, have published memoirs about their years in politics, entitled, respectively, Salty: Recollections of a Yankee in Politics...
NATIONAL SECURITY Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski's selection of Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson Professor of Government, as a National Security Council consultant on US-Soviet relations is deplorable for several reasons. In appointing Huntington, Brzezinski violated the spirit if not the letter of President Jimmy Carter's promise to bring people with fresh ideas into government rather than recycling the adherents of the disastrous policies and misguided ideology of past administrations. Huntington's well-documented views on the Vietnam War, his preoccupation wtih government stability at the expense of widespread democracy, and his dated expertise in this area all serve...