Word: samuels
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...when the theater’s walls were first erected, the glow of Hollywood pictures was but a distant light in the future. Originally envisioned as a cultural center that would combine theater, lectures and meetings, Brattle Hall arose from plans drawn by Reverend Samuel Wadsworth Longfellow, brother of poet Henry...
...Defoe of trans-Atlantic slavetraders in 1702. In 1695 "Oroonoko", a popular London play, depicted plantation life and a bloody slave insurrection with striking sympathy: "If you saw the bloody Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan Samuel Sewall wrote against slavery in "The Selling of Joseph", and as early as 1667 his predecessor, Michael Wigglesworth, had contended that God was color-blind: "Although Affliction tan the Skin, / Such saints are Beautiful within...
...idea for the national Poets Against War Day began when Samuel Hamill, founder of the Poets Against the War protest movement, sent an open letter calling for all poets to make Feb. 12 a day to speak out against Bush’s proposed attack on Iraq after he received an invitation to the White House symposium...
...York, N. Y.; Arthur Lehman '94, New York, N. Y.; Dr. Barvey Cushing m '95, New Haven, Conn,; John W. Prenties '93, New York, N. Y.; Eliot Wadsworth '93, Boston, Mass,; Dwight F. Davis '00, St. Louis Mo., and Tallahane, Fla.; William R. Munro G '01, Pasadnes, Calif.; Samuel H. Wolcott '92, Boston, Mass.; Ogden L. Mills '95, New York, N. Y.; Eliot Root, Jr. 1 '06, New York, N. Y. ; Eliot C. Culler '09, Boston, Mass.; Joseph P. Kennedy '12, New York, N. Y.; Donald K. David '09, New York...
...three are grateful to have worked with Bogart. Guest says that the experience gave him the drive he needed to create and direct beckettproseplay, an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s prose works...