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PLAY AND OTHER PLAYS by Samuel Beckett...
...Samuel Johnson, in his own idiosyncratic dictionary, defined lexicographer as a "harmless drudge." Murray was a delightful drudge of enormous energy. Born in a small Scottish village and largely self-taught (a process that saved him from mere pedantry), Murray could pick up languages as if he were shopping for groceries. For a time a schoolmaster and later a London bank clerk, Murray was drawn into the dictionary project by his work with the Philological Society. In his "Scriptorium," a room lined with hundreds of pigeonholes stuffed with more than 5 million quotation slips, Murray presided like a medieval abbot...
Says Craig Claiborne, food editor of the New York Times: "Gourmet cooking at home is a movement that has arrived. Samuel Johnson's statement, 'A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner,' is suddenly becoming true in America. People are much more serious today about the quality of their lives, and their pleasures nowadays have to do with the quality of their lives." In Atlanta, says Jean Thwaite, food editor of the Constitution, "it's a real challenge and a status symbol to come up with something your company hasn't tasted before...
Holcombe's ideal for the United States was Aristotle's Polity. "He viewed politics as a moral endeavor," Samuel H. Beer, the present Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, said yesterday. "He had a great deal of restrained moral passion...
...believes that if the conference starts well, the Syrians and Palestinians-assuming a formula for their representation can be worked out-will show up later on. Washington, after top White House and State Department policymakers spent their Thanksgiving holiday digesting extensive reports by Ambassadors Hermann Eilts in Cairo and Samuel Lewis in Jerusalem, began to tinker with a new formula for a pre-Geneva "preparatory conference"-comprising Israel, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, the U.S. and the Soviets, if Moscow wished-that would keep a comprehensive multilateral Geneva conference going until Syria and the Palestinians decided to join. Meanwhile, the Eilts-Lewis...