Word: benjamin
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Gilbert Moore, lecturer on Afro-American Studies, and Tahi L. Mottl, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, refused to comment yesterday. Harrington Benjamin and Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professors of Afro-American Studies, could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...From Benjamin Gate in Chicago...
...admirers are right when they detect in Carter an honest, decent, compassionate man, his critics may also be correct in thinking him somehow fatally limited. Even a sympathetic observer like Massachusetts Congressman Robert Drinan remarks: "There is something missing in Carter, something intangible." Says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "I like Mr. Carter. I respect...
...evacuated Bedouins could well have nowhere to go at all for some time. The four new proposed industrial settlements have yet to be built, and the government has no plans for temporary housing. Shrugs Benjamin Gur-Arieh, Premier Menachem Begin's adviser on Arab affairs: "They can double up in their tents until the villages are ready. They're used to it." Opposition to the law is gathering force in the Knesset, but critics of the government are more concerned about the Bedouins' inability to appeal than about the terms of compensation. Says Begin's former...
...Benjamin Britten: Spring Symphony (Soprano Sheila Armstrong, Mezzo Janet Baker, Tenor Robert Tear, St. Clement Danes School Boys' Choir, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Andre Previn conductor, Angel). Berlin born and Hollywood bred, Previn continues to show a surprising flair for English music. Here he leads a zesty performance of a piece that, like so much English music, makes a strength of its provincialism: it has medieval and folk echoes, strikes a resolutely winsome and pastoral note, and is steeped in native literature (with settings of verses by poets from Herrick and Blake to Auden). Britten composed it when...