Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vehicle for the debacle was a playlet called Areopagitica or Escape Fromm Freedom, written eleven years ago by John A. Benedict '54 and Kenneth J. Reckford '54, two veterans of Professor Samuel Beer's annual odyssey. As Professor Beer related to the audience Saturday night, the play, performed only once before, was uncovered after an exhaustive and painstaking search--in his desk--by Thomas Reckford '64, younger brother of the co-author. Even not knowing the dangers involved in exploring the wilds of Professor Beer's desk, I would say the expedition was well worth...
...Benedict...
Your reader's letter [March 2] "No Einsteins, but also no Rosenbergs" obviously carries the inference that "half of them may be Einsteins, but the other half are Rosenbergs." By the same logic, "No George Washingtons, but no Benedict Arnolds"; "No Winston Churchills, but no Roger Casements...
Subtitled "Escape from Freedom," the play was written by John G. Benedict '54 and Kenneth J. Reckford '54, and is dedicated to Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government and lecturer in Soc. Sci. 2. Thomas J. Reckford '64 is director; Beer is slated to give an introduction...
...helps a candidate for sainthood to be Italian, and a nun, priest or brother. Of the "causes" on the Vatican's current list, only 100 are laity; about half are non-Italians. Thirteen of the top candidates are cardinals; five are Popes: Gregory X, Innocent V, Innocent XI, Benedict XIII and Pius IX. Of the dozen or so Americans on the list, best known are Venerable Kateri Tekakwitha (TIME, Jan. 27, 1961), colonial New York's gentle, ascetic "Lily of the Mohawks," and Mother Elizabeth Bayley Seton (1774-1821), founder of the Sisters of Charity...