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...fiction of Samuel Beckett, a clearly evolving narrative line has been sacrificed in favor of a radically fragmented, almost pulverized texture. Directional melodies and harmonies have been replaced by sudden bursts of sound, explosions of something not quite rational or explicable...
...followers of Rev. Moon have several times before used Harvard scholars to draw people to their workshops. In addition to Reischauer, Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government, have spoken before groups of Moon followers...
...Play, by Samuel Beckett, is about three people in urns. What they are doing in these urns, whether they are dead or alive in these urns, and what they discuss in he course of this play are question I can't answer. But if you're a Beckett fan, you might want to investigate them on your own. At the Newbury Street Theatre, 15 Newbury St. in Boston, tonight and tomorrow. Tickets...
...book also presents a collage of classic one-liners for use in very special circumstances. Perhaps only once a millennium will a nobleman state that an actor-playwright will die either from venereal disease or hanging. Samuel Foote's riposte: "My Lord, that will depend upon one of two contingencies -whether I embrace your lordship's mistress or your lordship's principles." Hardly more common is the straight line offered to James Joyce by a burbling admirer: "May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?" Snapped Joyce: "No, it did a lot of other things too!" When...
...catch authors with their wigs off or their guards down. But not all anecdotes diminish their subjects. For every example of crankiness or distemper, there is a peek at private heroism and unsuspected virtues: Sir Walter Scott dictating three novels while he writhed in agony from attacks of gallstones; Samuel Johnson quietly doing public penance for a childhood act of disobedience committed 50 years earlier; Oscar Wilde, in prison and disgrace, discussing books with his respectful jailer; Poet John Stubbs, condemned to have his right hand cut off for offending Queen Elizabeth I, lifting his hat with his left hand...