Word: benjamin
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...defense last week, Carter argued that it would cost only $15 million a year, v. $10.4 million for the 13 existing consumer offices. Said he: "It is a tiny amount, but very, very important." Yet even as staunch a supporter of the proposal as New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal has challenged the President's arithmetic. The first year's costs could be $25 million, and could rise in succeeding years. The consumer protection agency looks very much like an idea whose time has passed...
...Bill Cracker's gin mill. Bill (Christopher Lloyd) is very tough but no match for the Lady in Gray, otherwise known as "the Fly" (Grayson Hall). She masterminds a gang of bank-robbing thugs with monikers like "the Reverend" (John A. Coe), "the Professor" (Robert Weil) and "Mammy" (Benjamin Rayson). They are all kept in line by Dr. Nakamura (Tony Azito), a Fu Manchu look-alike who speaks only in sibilants. Enter a Salvation Army lassie, "Hallelujah Lil" (Meryl Streep), who falls for Bill. After that, romance vies with comic havoc...
...Benjamin A. Barnes, associate professor of Surgery, and the co-editor of a report calling for application of cost-analysis to common surgical techniques, said yesterday, "With 18 million operations in the country a year, some are obviously less urgent than others...
Unlawful Burning. The Wilmington affair erupted in early February 1971, when tensions resulting from school desegregation led to widespread demonstrations, arson, shootings and other violence. A black civil rights organizer, the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, then 23, was sent to the city by the United Church of Christ's Commission on Racial Justice; he quickly became a leader of the black demonstrators. Just five days after his arrival, someone bombed Mike's Grocery, 300 yds. from Chavis' headquarters at the manse of Gregory Congregational Church. In that weekend of violence, one middle-aged white...
...would be considered dull singing, a trend that confirms my suspicion of a steady decline in operatic sensibilities. This decline may have started at roughly the same time that Opera began to die as an art form: something which occurred after the death of Puccini and before that of Benjamin Britten. We are now an artistically starved audience, looking at the operatic stage not as an expression of contemporary life, but as a musical museum, where singers execute historical documents, with technical accuracy and precision but little sincerity. Today the opera houses of the world abound with what Toscanini called...