Samuel Huntington, a political scientist known for his views on the clash of civilizations, died Wednesday in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., Harvard University announced Saturday. He was 81.
Huntington had retired from active teaching in 2007 after 58 years at Harvard.
He argued that in a post-Cold War world, violent conflict would come not from ideological friction between nations but from cultural and religious differences among the world’s major civilizations. He made the argument in a 1993 article in the journal Foreign Affairs, and then expanded the thesis into a book, “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order,” which was published in 1996. The Associated Press
Dale Wasserman, 94, a playwright best known for writing the book for the Tony Award- winning Broadway musical “Man of La Mancha” and the stage version of Ken Kesey’s novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” has died.
Wasserman died Dec. 21 of congestive heart failure at his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz., said Richard Warren, a friend.
“Man of La Mancha,” with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion, opened in 1965 and closed in 1971 after more than 2,300 performances in four New York theaters.
The musical won five Tony Awards, including best musical, best composer and lyricist, and best actor in a musical (for Richard Kiley). Los Angeles Times
Thomas B. Congdon Jr., 77, a prominent book editor who shepherded into print Russell Baker’s memoir, Peter Benchley’s biggest best-seller and David Halberstam’s mammoth tome about the auto industry, eventually founding his own publishing house, died Tuesday at home in Nantucket, Mass.
The causes were Parkinson’s disease and congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Elizabeth Caffey Congdon Pinto.
Described as a old-fashioned line editor who wrote detailed memos in response to manuscripts, Congdon worked at several publishing houses in the 1970s — Harper & Row, Doubleday and E.P. Dutton. The New York Times
