Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While most historians have trouble explaining one civilization, British Historian Arnold Toynbee sweeps grandly over them all, comparing Machiavelli to St. Benedict, Moses to Mohammed. But a historian who paints so vast a canvas is bound to fudge some of the details. One of the disconcerting details of A Study of History has now been blown up to book-length size, where it is more disturbing than ever. It is Toynbee's casual indifference to the menace of Communism...
...Benedict (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Premiere of a new series about a trial lawyer, played by Edmond O'Brien...
...Boston last week, silver-haired, short-tempered Patrick Benedict McGinnis, 58, bowed out as head of a Class I U.S. railroad for the fourth time in ten years. But in surrendering his job as chief executive of the 127-year-old Boston & Maine, the hotspur of U.S. railroading at least set a refreshing precedent. On previous occasions-aboard the Norfolk Southern, the Central of Georgia and the New Haven-McGinnis was tossed out by angry stockholders. At the B. & M. he decided to move up to chairman on his own hook...
...church has already canonized on Negro, St. Benedict the Moor, a 16th century Franciscan whose parents were slaves from Africa; he was declared a saint...
...problem was that many of the characters are no longer studied in the course, and several references to Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead passed unnoticed. But it was still a lot of fun, even if I won't be able to take another Soc Sci 2 paper seriously...