Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modest collection. Still, Walter Benjamin, unpacking his library, noted that "the chance, the fate, that suffuse the past before my eyes are conspicuously present in the accustomed confusion of these books." And there is, embedded in such infirm companions, a subtle aura, reminiscent of the sorrow which leaps up from the pages of old photograph albums: it could be called the aesthetic composition of a moment in time, where all the properties of a retrieved past appear in the present eidetic, solemn, and ill-at-ease...
...such examples. These works could be considered autonomous, in that their survivance is related to no specific epoch or lineage. Their titles have been handed on to me through other authors: in the case of Vambery, Arthur Koestler, in The Invisible Writing, while Eddington is quoted in Walter Benjamin's Illuminations...
...SKILL of the director and his staff explodes on the stage with all the pyrotechnics of Lenny Bruce's imagination For the long period she had to consider--the Korean war to 1966--Jan Stauffer designed costumes both appropriate and stylish for the respective scenes. Kevin Benjamin made his functional platform set a fantastic construction slopping and painting the platforms and adding a fifteen foot obelisk. The yellow vertical is used to delightful advantage in two of Lenny's elaborate company scenes. Christ and Moses appear at the top in one scene, staring solemnly in the luminous aura...
...Crimson has 16 returning lettermen, including co-captains Bob Clayton and John Quirk, triple jump record holder Kevin Benjamin, pole vaulter Jim Kleiger, shot put ace Joe Naughton, and distance man Ric Rojas, the star of the cross country team...
Pole vaulters Jim Kleiger and sophomore Blaine Heckel and Don Berg provide the Crimson with a potent attack, while the triple jump team of Kevin Benjamin. Howie Corwin and Sharpe is one of the strongest in the Ivies...