Word: benjamin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...homogenized age it is hard to realize how great seemed the differences between the colonies, how long were those miles that we now cover in an hour by air. Differences had accumulated as the population spread out and as the colonial decades wore on. In 1760 the shrewd Benjamin Franklin (experienced in trying to bring colonies together) said that even if, in the "impossible" event of "grievous tyranny and oppression," a few colonies should somehow ever come together, "those colonies that did not join the rebellion, would join the mother country in suppressing it." As John Adams recalled, "the colonies...
...along with him on Air Force One. He invited them to his forward cabin and, as New York's Hamilton Fish said later, "He told us how strongly he felt about the veto." After the lecture, Fish reversed his stand against the veto, and New York's Benjamin Oilman agreed to side with Ford should his vote be needed. On the trip back from West Point, Ford went to work on Air Force One's telephone, going down the list of his opponents and calling member after member, including some Southern Democrats. He called California...
...said he has engaged Benjamin Thompson Associates, a Cambridge architecture firm currently working on the Business School housing project, and Wilbur Smith Associates, a consultant firm, to work out traffic problems and Cambridge groups' objections to the Aliston alternative...
...That meeting, we later discovered, had focused on ways to respond to the Cambodian seizure of the merchant ship Mayaguez (see cover story). Unruffled by the developing crisis, the President greeted us warmly and leafed through the special edition. He paused at the People section, laughing over colonial Dr. Benjamin Rush's prognosis of ten extra years of life for anyone taking up a newly imported game called golf...
...Obsessed. Hicks painted such scenes over and over-there are some 60 known versions. While the peaceful animals dominate the foreground, Penn usually appears in the distance, negotiating with Indian chiefs. This portrait of Penn and the Indians actually derived from Benjamin West's painting of the same scene more than 50 years earlier. But simple reality meant little to Hicks-he was a man obsessed with his Utopia. Sometimes Hicks places this Utopia in an imaginary place, sometimes at Virginia's Natural Bridge (which Hicks never saw but adopted from an engraving), or the Delaware Water...