Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many Harvard teach-ins on Vietnam, an all-night marathon that had to be moved to Sanders Theater and overflowed anyway. And it saw Harvard's first hostile confrontation with a war-maker, an eminently polite debate between ex-dean of the faculty McGeorge Bundy and antiwar professors including Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History, while 35 picketers demonstrated outside: It saw a group of Harvard students, mostly Crimson editors, organize The Southern Courier, an Alabama weekly designed to provide objective, sympathetic coverage of the civil-rights movement that was reaching about 10,000 Alabama and Mississippi readers, mostly...
...seen it grow from a small, quiet reading room to one of the largest journalistic research facilities in the world. Its 14 research librarians field more than 100,000 queries a year from Time Inc. people (53,000 last year from TIME alone). Presided over by Chief Librarian Benjamin Lightman, the library holds extensive microfilm records of TIME correspondents' dispatches, plus 500,000 highly specialized file folders containing countless millions of newspaper and magazine clippings (sample subjects: children's motels, underwater painting, women astronauts). There are also some 75,000 books, including all standard reference works and such...
...sharp contrast are the images of Frances Benjamin Johnston. She was an aggressive, energetic woman with a journalistic bent. Her photographs are exacting records of late 19th century American life, and her method--detached observation--refutes the notion that feminine perception is intuitive and spiritual instead of rational. Contemporaries were rather taken aback because she "drank beer, smoked and daringly showed her ankles"--a spirited soul indeed...
Skyrocketing food prices also contributed to the increase, Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant to the director of food services, said yesterday...
Many of his sayings are hauntingly familiar, aphoristic observations usually attributed in the West to Benjamin Franklin or some ancient Jewish sage. Truisms like "Practice what you preach," or "He who learns without thinking is lost, but he who thinks without learning is in danger" seem reasonable building blocks for any society. And no one can argue with "Do unto others as you would have them do unto...