My wish to meet Samuel Beckett had been prompted by simple curiosity and interest in his work.

The personal quality of Samuel Beckett is similar to qualities I had found in the plays.

The Marlins had the second overall pick in the 1999 draft and drafted Josh Beckett from the state of Texas.

Nonetheless the Marlins showed promise entering the offseason as they had a rotation of Josh Beckett, Carl Pavano, Brad Penny, and A. J.

On February 29, the Marlins were recognized on Sports Illustrated's magazine for the 5th time ( 11 / 3 / 1997, Edgar Renteria who had a walk-off hit in Game 7 of the World Series ; 5 / 25 / 1998, Mike Piazza after his trade from the Dodgers ; 11 / 3 / 2003 ; Josh Beckett, after winning World Series MVP and 3 / 12 / 07 Dontrelle Willis, chronicling global warming with Willis in a flooded Sun Life Stadium.

Both theories were taken into account in Donaldson v Beckett, as well as in the drafting of the Statute of Anne, and Deene infers that they subsequently had an impact on the Belgian debates over their first copyright statute.

Beckett refrained from elaborating on the characters beyond what he had written in the play.

Mercier once questioned Beckett on the language used by the pair: " It seemed to me ... he made Didi and Gogo sound as if they had earned PhDs.

" Beckett said to Peter Woodthorpe that he regretted calling the absent character ' Godot ', because of all the theories involving God to which this had given rise.

In the Quantum Leap episode " The Great Spontini ", Scott Bakula's character, Dr. Sam Beckett, leaps into an amateur magician in 1974 who aspires to appear on Bill Bixby's The Magician ; however, owing to his partial amnesia, Dr. Beckett, at first, can only recall Bixby's connection with The Incredible Hulk, which had not been made at that time.

Beckett, with his team, had theorized that time travel was possible if the traveler only stayed within the timeframe of their own lifetime.

“ Tynan had asked … to write a brief skit for an erotic review, and Beckett agreed when he heard that Edna O ' Brien., Jules Feiffer, Leonard Melfi, John Lennon and Tynan himself were planning to contribute.

“ John Calder claims that Tynan commissioned it ; but Ruby Cohn disputes this, saying that Samuel Beckett had recited it to her years before, and that Calder published a fair copy but not the original, which SB had written on the paper tablecloth of a café .”

That was when I realised that Beckett had this massive sense of humour .”

In February 2007 he entered the news after it emerged that he had managed to get through to Margaret Beckett whilst impersonating Gordon Brown, with her revealing " embarrassing indiscretions ".

“ In a visit to Paris in January 1961, Barbara … informed Beckett that she intended to move to live permanently ” “ a move which had been discussed more than once with Sam .” His response was unusual.

“ Beckett initially contemplated setting Film in the evening, but had to decide against it for a practical reason: ‘ to remove all possibility of his putting off light in room .’”

Beckett had never seen Schneider direct any of his plays and yet continued to entrust him with the work.

Although the role called for Beckett ’ s seemingly ubiquitous bowler hat, Keaton had brought along some of his trademark flattened-down Stetsons and it was quickly agreed that he should wear one of those.

From this, however, he was removed on the change of administration in 1711 ; but his fortune had, in the meantime, been improved by the bequest of two considerable estates — one of them left him by Francis Barrington of Tofts, whose name he assumed by act of parliament, the other by John Wildman of Beckett Hall at Shrivenham in Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ).

Showcase performances in New York gave rise to a recording contract with ABC Dunhill Records and the release of the eponymous debut album in 1973, which had been recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama with producers Roger Hawkins and Barry Beckett at the helm.

Margaret Beckett had to adapt quickly to her diplomatic role and within a few hours of her appointment as Foreign Secretary she flew to the United Nations in New York for an urgent meeting of foreign ministers to discuss the Iran nuclear weapons crisis.

In the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Francis Beckett states: " the government ... wanted what would become known as a mixed economy ".

Beckett is even said to have wanted Marlon Brando in one production ( with Buster Keaton as Vladimir ).

He was under consideration for a deal to write three novels revolving around an unnamed British spy but rejected the offer, allegedly because his publisher wanted three more Nikki Heat novels and offered him more money, but secretly because accepting would have ended his collaboration with Beckett.

When the episode " Duet " was conceived, the writers wanted to maximise the chemistry and friendship between Beckett and McKay.

Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, " simple and earnest, rather cause us to wonder at the hidden depths of this reticent president ".

In 1971, the Arab-American scholar Ihab Hassan published The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature, an early work of literary criticism from a postmodern perspective, in which the author traces the development of what he calls " literature of silence " through Marquis de Sade, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Beckett, and many others, including developments such as the Theatre of the Absurd and the nouveau roman.

After meeting Samuel Beckett while delivering a series of lectures in Paris the same year, Adorno set to work on " Trying to Understand Endgame ," which, along with studies of Proust, Valéry and Balzac, formed the central texts of the 1961 publication of the second volume of his Notes to Literature.

Unlike elsewhere in Beckett's work, no bicycle appears in this play, but Hugh Kenner in his essay " The Cartesian Centaur " reports that Beckett once, when asked about the meaning of Godot, mentioned " a veteran racing cyclist, bald, a ' stayer ,' recurrent placeman in town-to-town and national championships, Christian name elusive, surname Godeau, pronounced, of course, no differently from Godot.

Of the two boys who work for Godot only one appears safe from beatings, " Beckett said, only half-jokingly, that one of Estragon's feet was saved ".

In 1976, Johns partnered with writer Samuel Beckett to create Foirades / Fizzles ; the book includes 33 etchings, which revisit an earlier work by Johns and five text fragments by Beckett.

In order to create a more favourable critical climate, a group of Joyce's supporters ( including Samuel Beckett, William Carlos Williams, Rebecca West and others ) put together a collection of critical essays on the new work.

Breath is a notably short stage work by Samuel Beckett.

Even for Beckett, whose later plays are often extremely short, Breath is an unusually terse work.

The piece was scored for two soprano saxophones, and is his first work in a minimalist idiom – an idiom which was substantially influenced by the work of Beckett.

At the beginning of the work, Beckett uses the famous quotation: " esse est percipi " ( to be is to be perceived ).

When he writes, “ No truth value attaches to above, regarded as of merely structural and dramatic convenience ”, Beckett takes the emphasis away from Berkeley's maxim thus stressing the dramatic structure of the work.

In 1970 Beck's work was denounced alongside Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett by Nëndori, the literary monthly of Albania, for supposedly being " inundated by mysticism and pornography.

This can be seen particularly in the work of Samuel Beckett ( most notably in Waiting for Godot ), who in turn influenced writers such as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.

Samuel Beckett ( 1906 – 89 ) published his first major work, the novel Murphy in 1938.

In 1970 Beckett went to work for the Labour Party as a researcher in industrial policy.

* E. M. Cioran on Samuel Beckett The website states that: " Scattered throughout the one thousand pages of Cioran's Cahiers 1957-1972 are many intriguing remarks about Beckett and his work, of which the following are among the more memorable.

In 1834 the Supreme Court ruled in Wheaton v. Peters ( a case similar to the 1774 case of Donaldson v Beckett in Britain ) that although the author of an unpublished work had a common law right to control the first publication of that work, the author did not have a common law right to control reproduction following the first publication of the work.