Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening of Benjamin Britten's latest opera, Death in Venice, poses the question of why no composer has previously tried to set Thomas Mann's writings to music. One reason may be that his themes were often heavily bourgeois. On the other hand, Mann's tales were frequently structured like musical compositions-ranging from the symphonic patterns of The Magic Mountain to the leitmotivs of Death in Venice, which would seem to be eminently transformable into opera. Britten has done just that, and the result is brilliant...
...acting, Coburn seems to have calculated his performance on a snide rule, Richard Benjamin reasserts his claim to being the movies' most charmless leading man, and Raquel Welch is perfectly cast as a bad actress...
...determination to make the Army a career, Pelosi has almost no other silence alumni to look to-except Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Silenced during his first year at the Point-1932 to 1936 -Cadet Davis survived to become a lieutenant general in the Air Force. An encouraging example, but not all together analogous: Davis' only sin was presumably his black skin...
...only appropriate to ask Actor Robert Young to deliver a few of Welby's simple truths to the graduating class of the University of Michigan medical school. Some of the seniors were not tuned in to Young's bedside manner. They held a countercommencement and got Dr. Benjamin Spock, the baby doctor and peace activist, to speak...
...When Benjamin Disraeli wrote Sybil and Henry Adams wrote Democracy, they invented the novel of politics with wit, coherent political philosophy and some insight into the great worlds of London or Washington in which they moved. In the century since, the novel of politics has come a long way-straight down. But the reader's fascination with power continues, and those Washington journalists who grope into fiction are as prolific...