Word: samuels
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Throughout this book, Brady traces the maturation of a man who always hungered for things that were only partially available to him. The two most profound influences were his relationships with his natural father Lord Auchinleck and with his adopted father Samuel Johnson. Lord Auchinleck was "upright, hardworking, shrewd, practical and totally unimaginative." To take a ridiculous modern example, his relationship with James was akin to that of Oliver Barrett III and his conservative, wealthy father in Eric Segal's Love Story. Boswell felt the same mixture of perverse joy in defying Lord Auchinleck that Oliver feels in resisting...
...writer. As the author desired, we do come away with an impression of Boswell as a powerful and interesting personality in his own right, far away from the shadow of his brilliant mentor. We understand better the mind that absorbed and synthesized detail like no other and consistently entertained Samuel Johnson, the most demanding of conversationalists. And we take satisfaction in a book that should set the standard for biographies of Boswell, as Boswell's own work set the standard 200 years...
...emigrated to the U.S. Other demanding authors, who possess a greater command of foreign tongues, have decided that self-translation is best. Nabokov, whose early work was written in Russian, rendered Laughter in the Dark into English. He also turned Lolita, which was written in English, into Russian. Samuel Beckett, an Irishman who writes mostly in French, has translated his plays, Waiting for Godot, Endgame and others, into his native English...
...professor who received top ratings from past and present students interviewed. Samuel I. Haves III, Schitt Professor of Investment Banking says he usually begins a class by posing a question to a student rather than lecturing. "I will call on a person for their analysis of the case's situation, but we don't try to embarass people," says Hayes. But, Hayes explains that the AMP professor can't just sit back and let the class run its course. "I have to know everything that might possibly come...
Amid the small signs of accommodation, there was one clanging note of discord last week. Speaking at a Tel Aviv University symposium commemorating the sixth anniversary of the Camp David accords, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis criticized his bosses' efforts in the Middle East. Commenting on the Reagan Administration's September 1982 peace plan, Lewis called the timing of the proposal "abysmal, the tactics of presentation worse, and the outcome...