Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PAPERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, VOL. I (400 pp.)-Edited by Leonard W. Labaree-Yale University...
...Benjamin Franklin, printer, philosopher, scientist, author, patriot and first citizen of Philadelphia, is America's universal man. Perhaps the most attractive aspect of his greatness was that he managed to be a kind of human golden mean-wise, moral, prudent, without being dull. This first volume of his collected papers gives readers the happy chance to get reacquainted with Franklin's winy wit, sage maxims and arrow-swift mind...
...plates excellent (98 pages are in color). Plans call for four volumes a year until by the end of the 15th volume, 9,000,000 words and 7,000 plates will have passed into print. The price: $32 a volume, $480 for the set. Said McGraw-Hill President Curtis Benjamin: "We were attracted the great and very evident resurgence of interest in the fine arts in America, and by the fact that more than 5,000,000 students are now studying art in one form or another in the U.S.A." It is a fair bet the figure will keep right...
...program by Samuel Barber and Manuel DeFalla could not possibly be considered "difficult" works and, to those familiar with Schoenberg's atonal period and the orchestral songs of Mahler, the Octandre by Edgar Varese, the French avant-garde composer and the Four Orchestra Songs by a young American, Benjamin Cutler, should not have posed insuperable problems of listening. More importantly, perhaps, they all provided ample opportunity for the orchestra to demonstrate its improved technical virtuosity and musical sensitivity...
...recent vote for officers, Benjamin B. Page '61 was re-elected president and David L. Stone '61 was chosen vice-president...