Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Probably the first thing anybody should know about the history of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry is that there isn't any history. The official history of Harvard by Samuel Eliot Morison doesn't contain a single word about the lectureship. That's because it was founded too recently, in 1926, and for Harvard any event in the twentieth century isn't distant enough to be historical. Even E.J. Kahn's popular work, Harvard, Through Change and Through Storm, fails to mention the Norton lectures. And the Harvard archives doesn't contain a great deal of material...
MERCIER AND GAMIER by SAMUEL BECKETT 123 pages. Grove Press...
...Samuel S. Bowles, professor of Economics at UMass at Amherst, lecturing on political economy before an audience of 150 persons in Emerson Hall, criticized the human capital perspective of neoclassical economic theory on the grounds that it is "not a useful guide to policy...
...raucous gaiety of Tel Aviv's waterfront, a center of the city's night life. After killing a passing Israeli soldier who fired at them as they came up off the beach from their rubber dinghy, the commandos, loaded down with rucksacks and Kalashnikov rifles, ran down Samuel Esplanade, the main shore drive, firing at a movie theater and tossing grenades at a wedding hall. Passers-by fled in all directions, but few suspected an Arab attack. Said Gabi Edri, 17, a waiter at a wedding reception: "We thought they were criminals with a score to settle...
When Judge Samuel Adams '50 ruled last Monday that Harvard does not have to keep Robin Sing working as a Gund Hall librarian--a position she was formally discharged from February 18--he made his decision on the only basis the law allowed him: that Sing had not been fired because of sex discrimination...