Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BENJAMIN F. MACDONALD...
...Aztees and the Mayans didn't have this sort of a problem, Benjamin D. Paul, assistant professor of Social Anthropology, pointed out. They reckoned time spans in 52 year cycles, at the end of which they had a massive celebration around a four aided temple, each of which had a 52 stop stairway leading up to it. When the celebration was over, they started a 52 year stretch all over again...
Behind it the 6:13 rushed closer & closer, its coaches performing a rattling dance upon their trucks, its crowded passengers and their upraised newspapers swaying in rhythmic unison. Its engineer, a 55-year-old railroader named Benjamin Pokorney, fled past a stop signal 3,516 feet from the stalled 6:09 at 60 miles an hour, apparently gambling (as other engineers have before him) that the track ahead would clear in time. He had only 850 feet of rails left when his headlight told him the terrible truth...
Minor sport H's to George P. Baker, Jr. '53, Boston; Robert L. Berger '52, Newton Highlands; Richard L. Craven '52, New York city; Humphrey Doermann, New York City; Werner Drehmel '52, Brookline William R. Engstrom '52, Newtonville; Bernard J. Florin '53, Roubaix, France; Dana H. Getchell '53, Belmont; Benjamin S. Goldstein '53, Cambridge; Robert S. O. Harding '52, Rumson, J. J.; Donald C. Harshman '53, Englewood, N. J.; Richard W. Hulbert '51, Somerville; Berkeley D. Johnson, Jr. '53, Scarsdale, N. Y.; James P. Johnson '51, Clarks Summit, Pa.; Laurence B. Leonard, Jr. '52, Swampscott; Richmind P. Miller...
During the second act, the uniqueness fades. Mr. Del Mar changes from his informal, rehearsal garb of the first act to conductor's full dress, and the opera begins. It is here that Benjamin Britten's music comes out as the intriguing element. Between the scenes of the first act, music written for four hands on a plane and percussion gave hints of what follows. Britten unfolds music of gay brightness, reminiscent of his work in the humorous opera "Albert Horring." The plot of the bedtime story is naturally flabby, and the acting of the children, though excellent...