Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackson (see box), is a threat to détente. In what can only be construed as a symbolic gesture to mollify U.S. opinion, they released Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, 67, who had been placed in a psychiatric clinic for political crimes five years ago. At the same time, Benjamin Levich, a Jew and a leading Soviet chemist, was told that next year he would receive his long-sought permission to emigrate to Israel. His two sons, both of whom had been harassed by authorities because of their own requests to leave the country, were told they could go before...
...Much as Benjamin Franklin might have abhorred the idea, debt has become the 20th century American way of life. The entire U.S. financial system is elaborately geared to keep money moving in vast quantities from lenders to borrowers. Nearly everyone operates on the almost unconscious assumption that there is plenty of money available to borrow at interest rates he can afford: businessmen who launch, expand or modernize enterprises; public officials who schedule the building of roads, schools, parks; consumers who plan purchases of houses, cars, even college educations. Yet in recent months that comforting belief has been shaken...
Hutchinson never stopped complaining that the private letters Benjamin Franklin obtained and circulated in Boston, setting off an outburst of hatred for Hutchinson, were distorted. He never stopped insisting that by the words, "there must be an abridgement of English liberties," he had not meant that there should be an abridgement of English liberties, but that Parliamentary representation for the colonies was so unfeasible that there had to be an abridgement, that there already was an abridgement, and that people should therefore try to minimize rather than overcome...
...only 39, he attempted or actually engaged in liaisons with several women, all of whom, as Brodie suggestively phrases it, were "in some sense forbidden." Appropriately, it was in Paris that Widower Thomas Jefferson, 42, enjoyed his flashiest illicit idyl. As a trade negotiator for George Washington, and later Benjamin Franklin's successor as Minister to France, the lanky Virginian fell in love with Maria Cosway, a capricious Englishwoman married to an obnoxious painter and court toady in London...
...Benjamin A. Gilman is a young, popular freshman congressman from New York's half rural, half suburban, and very conservative 26th district. Lying on the northern fringes of New York City, the district is composed of fugitives from the city's turmoil and those who fear it from a distance. Together they have established a conservative bastion to prevent its spread north. In 1970 the district elected a leftwing Democrat, John G. Dow '27, only because his Republican opponent was indicted for income tax evasion towards the end of the campaign. But in 1972, Gilman took advantage of Nixon...