Word: benjamin
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...questionable whether persuasiveness, pressure or whatever name one gives the President's role in the steel negotiations [Sept. 10] should be referred to as "winning the biggest victory of all." Said Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety...
...would be dropping by to help open the Lutheran Church's Youth Conference in Miami Beach. Suddenly there were righteous snorts all over Convention Hall. "He is not the kind of person," harrumphed one delegate, to be associated with 8,000 impressionable young Lutherans. Nonsense, replied Theologian J. Benjamin Bedenbaugh: "Why, Jesus spent more time with the Jackie Gleasons of his day than with the professors of theological seminaries." About 300 delegates canceled out, but when the bibulous Great One finally appeared, the others gave him a standing ovation. "I had some qualms about coming here today," said Jackie...
Boston's three medical schools are still hard up for bodies, and Harvard University's Dr. Benjamin Spector has enlisted the support of Richard Cardinal Cushing, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn and Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. "The clergy are behind this now," says Dr. Spector. Most people who donate their bodies feel they are doing something useful for society as well as saving funeral expenses...
...people are throwing off the control of the same rulers who are making war on working people throughout the world-in Viet Nam, the Dominican Republic and the Congo." At week's end Chicago-where civil rights groups have long campaigned against Mayor Richard Daley and School Superintendent Benjamin Willis-was quiet. But Governor Otto Kerner, at the request of Chicago police, ordered 2,000 Illinois National Guardsmen into the city to stand by in armories in case of further trouble. Then Springfield. Violence then leapfrogged east to the rifle manufacturing city of Springfield, Mass. Trouble had been brewing...
...Lasch skips over the '30's in a few pages, in pleasant contrast to Daniel Aaron's agonizing redundancies in Writers on the Left. C. Wright Mills and Benjamin Ginzburg are praised for defending the autonomy of culture against the depredations of those who called for Commitment. But Mr. Lasch is far more interested in the failings of the '40's and '50's, and perhaps it is here that he is most illuminating. He notes that the post-Marxist "realist" school of political analysis, fathered by Niebuhr on Kennan, Morgenthau, Charles Osgood, Louis Halle, and John F. Kennedy...