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...affliction. Many modern novelists, given the temper of the times, have viewed the world as a grim, inhuman place, and that view has paralyzed them as much as it has inspired them. Practitioners of the Literature of Impotence and Exhaustion, for example, have tended to become impotent and exhausted. Samuel Beckett, unable even to bewail further the impossibility of expression, has written nothing of significance for twenty years now, except for a few anguished fragments (his publishers have taken to offering new tran-slations of old, discarded texts). John Barth, last he was heard from, was searching for a literary...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: A New Jerzy | 9/19/1975 | See Source »

Krapp's Last Tape, Play, Come and Go, and other short plays by Samuel Beckett are being performed at the Newbury St. Theater, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St. in Boston, tonight and tomorrow at 8. Tickets...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: THE STAGE | 9/19/1975 | See Source »

...Samuel Hellman, Fuller American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Therapy and chairman of the radiation therapy department, explains that the field is oriented more towards research than towards purely clinical considerations of dosages. "There's a tremendous amount of work being done on basic biology of tumor cells to make treatment more specific," he says. Radiation's effects on the DNA, or chemical genetic messenger system, of both malignant and normal cells, for instance, is an important area of basic cancer research, Hellman adds...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Will Harvard Cure Cancer? | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Last week, in an unprecedented gesture of atonement, hundreds of Catholics turned out for Llewellyn's funeral procession, and Father Aodh Bennett of the Clonard Monastery near Falls Road held prayer services for the soul of "our brother Samuel." Father Bennett said, however, that he would not reveal the names of the two Catholic thugs who he suspects led the mob in Llewellyn's slaughter. "They'll be punished by their own people," he said, "and when that happens, may God avert his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: May God Avert His Eyes | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...retired British builder who runs Ye Olde Nosebag in Essex, England; he for the third time, she for the first; on the 174-acre grounds of Bronfman's Yorktown, N.Y., estate, in a ceremony that had been postponed for four days because of the kidnaping of his son Samuel (see THE NATION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 1, 1975 | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

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