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...leaders and reform Democrats, who proceeded to make their own deal to wrest the Democratic nomination from Klein in the primary and put up a Democratic-Liberal candidate in the general election. The Liberals dumped their earlier nominee, the reformers deserted Klein, and the new coalition plumped for Justice Samuel Silverman, 58, a Klein colleague on the Supreme Court. Kennedy personally talked him into running...
...world of Samuel Beckett, the entire machinery of existence seems to be grinding to a halt. Words leave his characters' mouths between pauses and in slow motion, as if speech were becoming extinct. The scenery is either fossilized, the bare gnarled tree of Waiting For Godot, or funereal, the ashcans of Endgame, the urns of Play, the mound of earth in Happy Days.'Man is maimed and buried alive in these props. One critic has called a Beckett hero a perverse Cartesian: I stink, therefore I am. Actually, the degradation and mutilation of the body are Beckett...
Scotland's James Boswell (1740-95) has done most of his growing in the grave. Until he died, his Life of Samuel Johnson was more esteemed as a feat of stenography than as a work of literature. In the 19th century, the book was accurately revalued as the first great biography in English, but its author was dismissed by proper Victorians as a whoremongering buffoon. "Servile and impertinent," Lord Macaulay called him, "a bigot and a sot, a talebearer, a common butt in the taverns of London." But Boswell was to have the last word -in fact, several million...
...Roman Catholic committee founded by Samuel Cardinal Stritch in 1954 to integrate Spanish-speaking Chicagoans into the religious and social life of the city...
...Alfred University, Samuel B. Gould, president of the State University of New York, said the "disquieting element" in student activism is that "it is not often enough accompanied by the presentation of practical solutions to the state of affairs being protested." At Smith, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued that "when issues are complex and ambiguous, as in Viet Nam, mass demonstrations run the risk of lowering the rationality of discussion...