Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...utmost sensitivity," specifically instructed them to remain silent about developments. At that point, the minuscule distribution list for cable traffic from Paris and Saigon was trimmed even further. At the end, the club that had access to the cables included only five men in Foggy Bottom: Rusk and Benjamin Reed, Executive Secretary of the State Department; William Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and his aide, Hay ward Isham; and Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. Not even these precautions were considered entirely reliable when particularly touchy issues were involved. At such times, scrambler...
...Cleveland admitted paternity but won anyway, aided by the opposition's slur that Democrats were the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." He was again the winner in 1892 against Benjamin Harrison...
This idea comes out in fiction, where men are impotent and women are insatiable. In The Graduate, Benjamin must undergo ordeal by orgasm before he can act decisively; in Bonnie and Clyde, the woman takes bank robbery and murder in her stride while the man battles paralysis (this is not to say that Bonnie is crudely portrayed). Man must prove himself against the external and feminine. The hero of Malraux's La Voie Royale is driven to conquer nameless woman after nameless woman. The vision of writing that emerges from all this is somewhat masturbatory--the emphasis...
After breakfast, before the bus tour, one Dow scientist gave a 20-minute lecture on Dow's plastics business -- "growing at a much faster rate than industry as a whole." Sitting through that discourse on the multifarious uses of polystyrene, I realized how Benjamin Braddock must have felt. He, at least, had had the good fortune of receiving his advice in a single word...
...Benjamin Rowland Jr., Gleason Professor of Fine Arts, announced yesterday that passes will be issued to students taking the course for credit. Section men will check them for admission to lectures...