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Word: benjamin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exchange, Benjamin Kaplan, professor of Law, will teach at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Law to Send James to Harvard | 2/14/1957 | See Source »

...devoted to football until he stumbled on the works of Christopher Marlowe, concentrated on literary criticism and history. His thoughtful, conscientious works include The Great Rehearsal, a vivid narrative of the Philadelphia convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution, and, at the top of his achievement, the biography of Benjamin Franklin that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Like his nephew, Carl Van Doren had an encyclopedic mind. Wrote Novelist Sinclair Lewis: "He could have sat down with Erasmus; but they would have discussed football or girls or the vintage of their wine as vigorously as the latest stirring discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: THE REMARKABLE VAN DORENS | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...Thunder, the first of the coolly intellectual Mark Van Doren verses that now fill a dozen volumes. One volume, Collected Poems, won him the Pulitzer Prize a year after Carl. His Nathaniel Hawthorne did for one of the nation's literary founding fathers what brother Carl did for Benjamin Franklin. Perhaps Mark Van Doren's most lasting achievement has been fashioned in the classrooms of Columbia; he ranks among the great U.S. teachers. One former student, Trappist Father Thomas (The Seven Storey Mountain) Merton, wrote of him: "His classes were literally 'education'-they brought things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: THE REMARKABLE VAN DORENS | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

...Khan Professorship is the first chair established at Harvard by a foreigner since the Rumford Professorship of Physics was founded in 1819 by Benjamin Thompson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frye Chosen First Iranian Professor | 2/5/1957 | See Source »

...hear this!" cried a frenzied spectator. Before he left, Benny made a recording of the Burmese national anthem that may be made the official version by the Burmese government. Then Benny and band took off for six solidly booked concerts in Tokyo, where he was introduced as "the great Benjamin Goodman" and showered with flowers. Said one sideman nostalgically: "Those were real times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cats in Asia | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

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