Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Besides Dad: George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, William Henry Harrison, Ulysses Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft...
...BENJAMIN BRITTEN: SYMPHONY FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA (London). On the heels of 1963's bestselling War Requiem comes another major new work by Britten, recorded by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the English Chamber Orchestra under the composer's baton. A 35-minute symphony of gloomy grandeur, it opens with short, skittering, sometimes angry themes. They are like uneasy questions, finally answered in passages that are broadly melodic but nevertheless tentative and unsettling...
...scout, Frankfurter manned the New Deal ramparts with such protégés as Dean Acheson, Jerome Frank, David Lilienthal, Thomas Corcoran and the ill-fated Alger Hiss. Predictably, they were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who had officiated at Frankfurter's marriage to Marion A. Denman, the daughter of a Congregational minister. F.D.R. phoned Cambridge, where he caught his friend dressing for dinner. Standing in his underwear, Frankfurter heard the "warmth-enveloping" voice asking him to succeed Cardozo...
...hero of Voices of a Summer Day is Benjamin Federov, a New York businessman who is "no longer young, and. although at a distance his slimness and way of moving gave a deceptive appearance of youth, close-up age was there, experience was there, above all around the eyes . . ." Federov spends a summer afternoon watching his 13-year-old son play baseball in a Long Island beach town, musing between innings about the life that has made his eyes all crinkly with experience...
...middle of Harvard's lineup, of juniors, displayed its usual strength. Dinny Adams, Dave Benjamin, Todd Wilkinson all won easily...