Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went outside. Rowan says he came face to face with a "tall man who was smoking something that I was absolutely sure was marijuana." After the man ignored warnings and lunged toward him, says Rowan, he fired once, wounding the intruder in the wrist. Police identified the trespasser as Ben N. Smith, 18, who, along with at least three others, had apparently scaled Rowan's 8-ft. fence for a dip in the swimming pool...
...second son of a failed father and domineering mother, his expulsion from Thayer Academy, his struggles to make his name as a writer during the 1930s, and his growing < recognition as a regular contributor of short stories to The New Yorker; then marriage and three children -- Susan, Ben, Federico -- and the move to the exurbs north of New York City; increasing renown, novels, prizes, alcoholism, depression, extramarital affairs; finally, the kicking of alcohol and the redemption of finding himself rich and famous...
...four years later, Harvard fencing Coach Ben Zivkovic is not the least bit shy about proclaiming O'Neill the best ever...
This selfishness is couched in a desire for so-called normality. The paradox that Lessing uncovers is that the violence and brutality of society, embodied in Ben, has its origin in the deceptive calm of the bourgeoisie...
...Ben's presence shatters that calm, and awakens Harriet to the blindness and hypocrisy of her life. When her family casts out her child, duty forces Harriet to remain loyal. His rejection by society, by his family, brings to an end Harriet's illusions. Ben's marginalization mirrors Harriet's isolation...