Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Benjamin C. Bell Jr. Nashville...
...Channel 7 will devote eight hours to a program entitled, "Since JFK: The Last Twenty Years." During one of its four segments, entertainment critic Rex Reed and others will for some reason review the arts over the past 20 years. During another, former congresswoman Bella Abzug and NAACP leader Benjamin Hooks will participate in a "talk about social issues." And in the final segment, Betty Friedan, Jimmy Breslin and Michael Debakey will "explore feminism and the sexual revolution." Channel 7 sees the Kennedy assassination not only as a tragic event, but also as an unprecedented watershed in the 20th century...
...Benjamin N. Smith '87 provided an alternative explanation for the leaks. "It must have been a Yale engineer that designed the place," he said...
...Credulity," noted Charles Lamb, "is the man's weakness, but the child's strength." The sisters had no trouble convincing elders that they could converse with the spirits of Benjamin Franklin and John C. Calhoun. Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, endorsed their honesty; Leah Fish, an enterprising promoter, moved them from parlors to crowded lecture halls. By 1860, twelve years after the first triumph of the little Foxes, Humorist Artemus Ward wrote in his patented regional dialect, "My naburs is mourn harf crazy on the new fangled idear about Sperrets...
...Benjamin Brown, former director of the CFIA's fellows program, recalled Aquino's personal qualities. "He had an electric enthusiasm," he said, adding. "As a public figure, he seemed to reveal himself so fully, define himself so clearly." Eugene Skoinikoff, director of MIT's Center for International Studies, said that he best remembered Aquino's "need for understanding and honesty, and his avoidance of slick pharases. He simply told you what he thought...