Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Producers Benjamin and Lawrence Rothman have pointedly avoided the customary chamber-of-horrors approach in their documentary history of the Polish Jews. There are no closeups of bulldozers pushing bodies into mass graves, no shots of the prisoners of Treblinka and Auschwitz. The narra tor, Theodore Bikel, never raises his voice a decibel above conversational level. Instead, with a rare collection of stills and film clips, the movie quietly tells the history of Jewish life in Poland, a history that took a millennium to evolve and four years to be obliterated...
...Council will sponsor a China Conference this weekend Registration will be from 3 to 6:30 pm today, at the Hotel Continental and from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Saturday, at PBH. Speakers for Saturday and Sunday include John K. Fairbank, Director of the East Asian Research Center, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of government and history, and Owen Lattimore, professor of Chinese studies at the University of Leeds, England...
Last week the Boschaps performed a rich, tastefully executed program at Manhattan's Town Hall. In Benjamin Britten's Fantasy for Oboe and Strings, the trio of strings spun delicately interlocking webs around the oboe's sober solo; Francis Poulenc's sprightly Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone was charmingly carried off like the playful banterings of back-fence gossips. The evening's major piece, Schubert's String Quintet in C, grew out of the stage like a tree of sound, alive and shapely in every line. The musicians played as it is seldom...
...Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government, stated that "the notion that the Chinese model of revolution is a kind of magic formula which will work everywhere in the `underdeveloped world' once certain buttons are pressed in Peking is a notion based on the same fear of the disbolical cleverness of Communists which we used to direct to Moscow...
...Benjamin I. Schwartz '33, professor of History and Government, and John M.H. Lindbeck, associate director of the East Asian Research Center, will be on radio WHDH from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. today in a live broadcast of their testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The program will be rebroadcast starting at 1 p.m. Saturday...