Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Michael K. Ferber, a second-year Harvard graduate student, and four other men--including Dr. Benjamin Spock, the noted pediatrician, and William Sloan Coffin Jr., Yale University chaplain--were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston Friday on charges of conspiring to counsel young men to violate the draft laws...
...ranked with the very best American secondary schools -standing almost without peer among public schools. With an equal reverence for strict discipline and classical learning, Boston Latin could claim at least some part in the later success of a line of "old boys" that stretched all the way from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein. But after World War II, as the city school system deteriorated, Boston Latin went into a sharp decline, and for a while seemed destined to become just another inept high school. Now, in a striking recovery, it once again ranks among the nation...
...Benjamin to her bedroom and does a sinuous strip. "I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends," he says, heading for home and mother...
...their next meeting, however, he takes her to a hotel and begins the affair in earnest. As the summer drifts on, Benjamin's parents begin to worry about his listless manner. They arrange a date with an old school chum (Katharine Ross) who has but one fault: she is Mrs. Robinson's daughter. Benjamin confesses all, the girl runs back to campus, and her mother arranges a marriage of inconvenience in order to keep the couple apart. In the final reel, Benjamin revs up his psyche and his Alfa Romeo and heads for Santa Barbara to break...
Most of the film has an alarmingly derivative style, and much of it is secondhand. The screwball scene in which Benjamin breaks up the wedding is uncomfortably close to Morgan. The editing features tricky sound overlaps from one scene to another and quick jump cuts from faces to bodies and back again, yet never consistently settles on a style. There is even a disappointing touch of TV situation comedy. A domestic argument ends with the toast popping out of the toaster, a visit to the zoo features the inevitable cute chimp mugging in its cage...