Word: benjamin
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Alan Hewet, a bookseller at Harvard Bookstore on Mass Ave says that the store has shown a marked increase over the last year in the sale of sex books, like "Woman's Orgasm," by Georgia Kline-Graber and Benjamin Graber. The cover describes the book as "an amazingly easy and successful self-help program developed by a doctor-nurse sex-therapist team...
...June he was awarded a life peerage that entitled him to be called, although no one did, Lord Britten. It was an honor that acknowledged Benjamin Britten's rank as Britain's finest living composer and one of its best throughout a long history. In 1945 he produced the one contemporary opera, Peter Grimes, that has found a firm place in international repertory. Of the 14 other operas that he wrote, Billy Budd may soon earn a similar popularity, and if it does not, the underappreciated A Midsummer Night's Dream should. His plentiful songs and chamber...
...claim that contemporary America is a fallen world, at odds with its ideal past. A large part of the book's bite comes, in fact, from a half-humorous debunking of out historical myths: Emerson got most of his ideas from his Unitarian cohorts, Fried smirkingly insinuates, and Benjamin ("Early to bed, early to rise") Franklin never rose until noon. More substantively, it's hard to detect any real difference between, for example, the imperialism for which Julian chides the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Stuart Rantoul Prescott's glorious paeans to "manifest destiny...
...guided by an unseen hand. In his off-watch time, Buckley read Moby Dick. But no whales were sighted, just an unidentified submarine. Buckley also tells of anchoring in an isolated cove in the British Virgin Islands, only to be unexpectedly joined minutes later by another boat bearing Dr. Benjamin Spock. In warm neutral waters, ideological differences fade to reveal indelible tax brackets...
...Benjamin F. Wright, who taught government at Harvard for 23 years, died Sunday at home in Texas...