Word: benjamin
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...cartoonist (Richard Benjamin), She is his wife (Paula Prentiss), there's a fop actor (Jack Cassidy) who poses for the strip, and the name of the game is situation comedy. Premiere...
...fast as I could when I was 40. Matter of fact, there are some other things I can't do as well as when I was 40." It has proved an important birthday for other Presidents as well. At 59, Andrew Johnson was impeached, Benjamin Harrison lost his bid for reelection, and F.D.R. brought the U.S. into World...
Adding to the ferment, two pieces sharply disagree. Stanley Kauffmann explains how he got jobbed by the New York Times for trying to do "serious drama criticism" during his brief tour there last year. By contrast, Benjamin DeMott attacks Kauffmann's most discussed criticism: the two articles he did for the Sunday Times accusing homosexual playwrights of always trying to"invent a two-sex version of the one-sex experience." As DeMott sees it, the homosexuals contribute a valid theatrical experience -"a steady consciousness of a dark side of love...
...type of art may not like it. But that's all right. Not too many years from now, it will be accepted by the man on the street as Van Gogh and others are today." In fact, the man on the street was already accepting it. Chicago Policeman Benjamin Troupe declared: "I like it fine-whatever it is." Added Cabby George Downs: "The longer you look, the more you see. That's what art should be." Even the Chicago Tribune, which before the unveiling had called it "Picasso's predatory grasshopper," later reversed itself in a front...
Similarly, Boston Psychiatrist Benjamin Simon believes that the UFOs have something for everybody. For the cosmic pessimists, saucers may represent some malignant force about to take over the world. To the ill, UFOs can represent the miracles they have been waiting for. For many, belief in the saucers provides an "oceanic or cosmic feeling of immersion in the total universe, a sort of nirvana...