Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, as the legal machinery was apparently moving to exonerate both Schrager and Priolo, a New York judge revealed that for nearly a year he had been using a neat double-check system on eyewitnesses. In ten cases where identifications constituted virtually the only evidence, Judge Benjamin Altman permitted defense attorneys to seat a look-alike beside the defendant in court. In only two cases did the previous identification hold up. "Asking for a fair and accurate system of identification is often connected with some kind of bleeding-heart thing," says Robert Kasanof of New York's Legal...
...femaleness vary from place to place. As she explained later: "It was a simple-a very simple-point to which our materials were organized in the 1920s, merely the documentation over and over of the fact that human nature is not rigid and unyielding." Linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf contributed to cultural relativism by stating that different linguistic groups conceive reality in different ways, that the way they think shapes the language they speak and vice versa...
...come? I want people to see what you look like.' I was intimidated by her dictating, pontifical ways at first, but now I just don't let her be my mother." Her fans find her clever, charming when she tries-and above all, honest. Adds Actor Dick Benjamin: "She never lies. She'll tell you if they don't want you and if she has gone as far as she can go. But I've seen her sell past the resistance...
...wish you would answer my calls," she twittered gaily, dropping her business card in his soup. Giggles, apologies-and before the evening was over Ewell had signed. She wined and dined Tony Perkins for eight months until he hired her. She pursued Paula Prentiss and Husband Dick Benjamin even through Paula's nervous breakdown, visiting her at the hospital "when no one else would," recalls Benjamin; five years later they signed. Grins former Partner Korman: "She would have made the best Electrolux salesman of them...
...EVIDENCE that Kramer's political analysis is sounder than the confusing self-revelatory passages of Mother Walter, you can turn to "The Quality of Naivete," an introductory essay he wrote for The Growth of Industrial Art. This massive volume is a re-issue of Benjamin Butterworth's 1892 collection of drawings of early tools right up to the then-latest advances in American technology. The self-satisfied texture of this beautiful book speaks more eloquently than any written passage could for the peculiar sensibilities of the late nineteenth century businessman...