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BERKSHIRE THEATER FESTIVAL, Stockbridge, Mass. The Merchant of Venice, July 19-30, performed as it was by the inmates of the Theriesenstadt concentration camp in Nazi Germany in 1943-the costumes are stark prison uniforms and the set is a bare hall in the camp. To be followed by Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...
...warm July afternoon in 1964, off-duty New York City Policeman Samuel Lasky heard a noise outside his apartment door in suburban Mount Vernon. Two strangers were tiptoeing down the hall. Lasky hurriedly grabbed his pistol and managed to collar one, John F. Peters, who protested that he was merely visiting a married girl friend in the building. Not impressed, Lasky frisked Peters and felt something that "could have been a knife." What Lasky actually found was an envelope containing burglar's tools-for possession of which Peters was duly convicted...
...Sioux, after which the convention would be stampeded into rewarding him with the presidential nomination. Just how Custer expected to achieve this in so short a time is left unexplained. Actually, his death was not reported to the nation until July 5. By that time, the Democrats had nominated Samuel J. Tilden, who met a different sort of disaster. Although he won a majority of the popular vote, 4,284,020 to 4,036,572, he lost the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes by one electoral vote...
...late as 1890, the word "privacy" did not occur in legal literature. In that year a socially prominent young Boston lawyer named Samuel D. Warren took offense at a local gossip sheet that had assiduously reported on every party that he and his wife gave, and they gave many. With a colleague, the young Louis Brandeis, he wrote an article for the Harvard Law Review that first enunciated "The Right to Privacy." The authors' key point, which Brandeis re-emphasized later from the Supreme Court bench: "The right to life has come to mean the right to enjoy life...
Primitive Faith. The book was un earthed by an Oxford Islamic scholar, Dr. Samuel Stern, who just in passing told Hebrew University Philosopher Shlomo Pines about it. Pines, also an expert on early Christian history, concluded that the text accurately reflected the primitive faith of the Nazarenes, whose doctrines had previously been known through polemics against them by such orthodox theologians of the early church as Jerome and Epiphanius...