Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gainesville Eight thus joined the Chicago Seven, the Camden 28, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Angela Davis, and several Black Panther groups who have beaten conspiracy indictments. There are no other major conspiracy trials pending at present. Conspiracy seems to spin in other directions these days, and the Justice Department has its hands full. It may well decide to pursue the prosecution of radicals less frequently in the future...
Opera Star Eleanor Steber, 57, now largely confines herself to concert appearances and to teaching at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard and the New England Conservatory. But for the American première of Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave, in Santa Fe, N. Mex., the soprano sang the role of the old battle-ax aunt to Alan Titus' young Owen. Letting out all the stops, Steber, done up in Victorian rig, calls her nephew a coward for not following in the family's military tradition. How did it feel to play the heavy for a change...
...They Were, by Sylvia Topp and Tuli Kupferberg. Little Walter Cronkite sported short pants and big ears; Sammy Davis Jr. at three looked like a refugee from Our Gang; Marlene Dietrich was demurely Victorian, with a tiny heart-shaped locket and crossed ankles. As a baby, Baby Dr. Benjamin Spock wore a wide-brimmed hat, a Gerber smile, and a handsome diminutive pair of buckled Mary Jane shoes...
...Ambassador College's archaeological program in Jerusalem. This year the school could accept only 40% of those who applied. Unlike excavations elsewhere, the Jerusalem project continues throughout the year. It is conducted by Hebrew University under one of the world's greatest authorities on biblical archaeology, Benjamin Mazar. The point of the expedition is to uncover Herodian Jerusalem near the Temple Mount and try to get down to the foundations of the city at the time of King David (circa...
...time, we decided to get rid of the cat, so we put an advertisement in Boston After Dark and a nice lady with a cat of her own came and took him away and renamed him Benjamin, just like the lady in The Sound and the Fury. The cat was so affected that he never molested the lady's bathtub, but on his first day in his new home, he began to claw the furniture. Thereafter he was well-behaved. Even though he had almost certainly never read any Ezra Pound, apparently, he had become so imbued with the Harvard...