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...SAMUEL BECKETT struck upon the primary purpose of art in the twentieth century when he observed that "we always find something to give us the impression we exist." Art, facing an increasingly fragmented epoch growing less certain of itself, must maintain a running struggle to illuminate "impressions" of human existence from artist to audience. Sometimes, these impressions merely state the quiet yet dramatic fact of human existence, like the paintings on the walls of Spain's Altamira caves, or else they can boldly declare individual existence with the sincerity of a Roman bust...
...practical [flying] machine seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be," one scientist wrote about the turn of the century. One week before the Wright brothers took off at Kitty Hawk, the New York Times editorially advised Samuel Langley, one of the Wright brothers' chief competitors, to turn his talents to ''more useful employment...
...take a deep deep breath and then say it. As a dramatist, Samuel Beckett can be, and frequently is, a crashing bore. His world-renowned play Waiting tor Godot has been called a masterpiece so repeatedly that any revival of it seems to come gift-wrapped in its exalted reputation. In the canon of dramatic literature, Godot is an original stunt, a clever game, but no masterpiece. It has spoken to the inner spirit of an age that is antiheroic, narcissistic, self-pitying, and prone to believe that man's journey through life is a pointless shuttle from nothing...
Labor representatives at Wednesday's meeting included Leonard Woodcock, president of the UAW; Harold Gibbons, international vice president of the Teamsters; Howard Samuel, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (AFL-CIO); James Matles, of the United Electrical Workers; and John Hein, assistant to the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers...
...string. He even acted out pushing a wet string on the table. He told the accused girl to have patience, be reasonable, keep trying. Two days later, the Committee informed the same girl that non-violently standing on the steps of University Hall with 150 other people while Samuel R. Williamson tried to get into his office had earned her a suspended requirement to withdraw. It seems that a wet string can move very fast sometimes...