Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observable evidence, there is considerable justice to all charges. There is not a single thing about Clark that could be considered lovable; tolerable would be stretching things a bit. Auditioning for a potato chip commercial, Clark insults the director and the product. Then he calls up Ben (Richard Benjamin), his nephew as well as his agent, to rail about not getting...
...from the rest of the world that may resent them or cling to them. There is much that is illusory in these moments of soft music, laughter and warm toasts. In the glow of the White House's East Room or at the State Department's Benjamin Franklin Room, with its sweeping view of the Potomac River valley, the world can seem manageable...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--If you're into seeing Benjamin Franklin on every street corner, with an occasionally Bernie Parent thrown in for variety, then you should definitely spend your Halloweens down here in the City of Richie Allen...
...were influenced by the European Enlightenment and who embraced a kind of post-Christian system that still sometimes did acknowledge the Christian God and respected the man Jesus. Thomas Jefferson found various religions "all good enough" because they helped preserve peace and order, but he could also be critical. Benjamin Franklin "respected them all," but he took sides against the more dogmatic and sectarian churches, those that "serv'd principally to divide us, and make us unfriendly to one another...
...Franklin spoke not of sins but, as a publisher would, of "Errata." He grounded virtue in "the Laws of our Nature" and in man's character as "a sociable being." Jefferson believed that "morality, compassion, generosity are innate elements of the human constitution." He and his physician friend Benjamin Rush spoke for those who thought of man as having a moral faculty and of vice as a kind of curable disease. In his view, good habits and moral practice reproduced health and virtue...