Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your review of the recent books on George Bernard Shaw [Sept. 5], there is the usual abundance of puns, japes and witticisms which one expects to find in TIME. But I find it lamentable for one reason: the usual anonymity. Sincerely, Benjamin R. Katz...
...larger scale, though, the persistent growth of euphemism in a language represents a danger to thought and action, since its fundamental intent is to deceive. As Linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf has pointed out, the structure of a given language determines, in part, how the society that speaks it views reality. If "substandard housing" makes rotting slums appear more livable or inevitable to some people, then their view of American cities has been distorted and their ability to assess the significance of poverty has been reduced. Perhaps the most chilling example of euphemism's destructive power took place in Hitler...
...Benjamin Brown, now acting director, describes the seminar's purpose as follows...
...Wayne was the war. He was for it. When ordinary men feel that way, they sound off at home or in saloons. Wayne did it in a picture. The Green Berets was probably the only prowar movie made in the '60s. It was so pro that New York Congressman Benjamin S. Rosenthal accused Wayne and the Army of conspiracy. The movie, claimed Rosenthal, "became a useful and skilled device employed by the Pentagon to present a view of the war which was disputed in 1967 and is largely repudiated today...
...Friday afternoon, the posters were placed in every entry in the Yard dorms, in the Union, in Dudley House and in classroom buildings, according to Benjamin I. Ross '71, organizational secretary of the young People's Socialist League, the democratic socialist group sponsoring the talk...