Word: benedicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clasps the asp to her bosom. In Romeo and Juliet, Berlioz shows that he can be as tender with Shakespeare's young lovers as he is terrifying with Cleopatra. Berlioz did not, however, always have to rely on emotional pressure. The overture to the comic opera Beatrice and Benedict, which Davis played at his third concert last week, is a masterpiece of witty understatement that perfectly graces the champagne gaiety of the entire work...
...Prato Master is responsible for an exuberant Birth of the Virgin, in which graceful Florentine ladies foreshadow those in a similar scene by Ghirlandaio. The ironic hand of The Master of the Cloister of the Orange Trees can be seen in two scenes from the life of St. Benedict...
McCarthy's Wisconsin organization Tuesday night cancelled a scheduled flight of student volunteers from Harvard. Benedict Stavis, Wisconsin canvas coordinator, said "time and geography" influenced his decision to tell Harvard students to stay in the East. "We told them to work in Connecticut and send us the money," Stavis said...
...places down the alphabet-thus D stood for a, E for b, F for c, etc. Mary Queen of Scots wrote conspiratory messages in cipher; when intercepted and interpreted by England's first great cryptanalyst, Thomas Phelippes, they helped bring Mary to the chopping block. In the U.S., Benedict Arnold employed several codes, including one that was keyed to Volume I of the fifth Oxford edition of Blackstone's Commentaries...
Even more significant than CORE'S threat was the formal organization in Dallas this month of the National Committee of Negro Churchmen, composed of 300 members from twelve Protestant denominations. Its chief founder, the Rev. Benjamin F. Payton, president of South Carolina's Baptist Benedict College, concedes that U.S. churches have generally demanded equal justice for Negroes, and that white clergymen have been at the forefront of civil rights demonstrations. Nevertheless, says Payton, "I don't think we have yet the concrete actions that clearly suggest that the churches are moving to remedy the great evil...