Word: benjamin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sixth slot, Chuck Elliott sent Armando Garza-Sada home to slide rules and calculators early as he won the lop-sided match, 15-5, 15-7, and 15-8. John Fishwick only gave up eight points in all of his short-lived outing against Lloyd Benjamin. In the words of Manager White Ford, Fishwick "gave him the donut," scoring a 15-0, 15-5, 15-3 whitewash...
...Benjamin Rosen, chief microelectronics analyst for New York's Morgan Stanley investment banking firm, sees the chips as the major technological development of our time. Says he: "It will have more impact on our society in the next 20 years than any other invention...
...Benjamin Mays, president emeritus of Morehouse College, on the U.S. today: "If this is a melting pot, I don't want the Negro to melt away...
...scarcely matters what time is assigned to these stories; the author's clock has stopped in the '30s, when naturalism reigned and bourgeois society was the ordure of the day. The revolutionaries of that epoch now resemble entries on some tarnished armed services memorial: Edward Dahlberg, Benjamin Appel, Richard Wright, James T. Farrell. Of them all, only Farrell is still doing business at the same old stand. His ear for dialogue remains metallic (" 'And now, to no self-neglect,' he said, raising his glass and drinking"). His plots are, as always, mere runways for their adrenal...
Furie, unlike Wayne, is on the side of the doves, but a brief exposure to the garbled ideology of Company C might per suade even Benjamin Spock to take up arms. The complex historical drama of Viet Nam becomes as mindless as a Saturday-morning cartoon. The bad guys are loutish American officers obsessed with body counts and South Vietnamese preoccupied with heroin smuggling. The good guys are the Marines in Company C, all of whom, apparently, fought the war against their will. The Vietnamese peasants are represented by picturesque extras who seem to be refugees from a way ward...