Word: benjamin
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...more effort to read him, but you get a lot back." She interviewed several of Baker's colleagues at the New York Times, close friends like NBC Anchorman John Chancellor and Author David Halberstam, and a number of other leading humorists, including S.J. Perelman and, in a sense, Benjamin Franklin. (Franklin was the nation's first regularly published humor columnist, and Rudulph dug up an early example of his work.) "Everybody was happy to discuss Baker," says Rudulph. But no one was more pleased than Syndicated Columnist Art Buchwald, Baker's colleague in the American Academy...
Rosovsky has not yet said how he would choose Faculty members to sit on the committee. Benjamin said. "We are fearful that people will be brought in who have no understanding of Afro-Amer can Studies," he said...
...Benjamin said, however, the junior faculty favored the proposal as a way to "broaden tenured leadership" in the department...
...committee would function until it adequately strengthened the department by appointing a sufficient number of senior Faculty, Benjamin said. At that point the senior Faculty members of the department would again resume sole control. Benjamin said it was still unclear how Rosovsky would determine when the department had reached that point...
...Benjamin said the junior Faculty members would not take a position on the committee proposals until Rosovsky outlined the specifies involved. "We greet such an idea with extreme skepticism," he added...