Word: benjamin
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...line civil rights leaders are also skeptical about a Jackson candidacy. They tend to be more cautious than their gung-ho Chicago colleague, somewhat resentful of his self-promoting style, and above all unwilling to have him act as broker for them in the political arena. Both Benjamin Hooks of the N.A.A.C.P. and Lowery have expressed their reservations. Of the candidates who embrace the black leadership's "people's platform," Lowery says, he will urge support for the one "who has the best chance of helping my vote purchase a one-way ticket west for the present occupant...
...baby's smile is also a kind of judgment on the care that its mother has been providing. "All these new data about how early the baby can distinguish things should upgrade motherhood, restore some prestige to it," says Dr. Benjamin Spock, 80, who taught a benign form of child rearing to a whole generation of Americans. "Motherhood has had an ever reduced amount of importance placed on it in our strange, overly intellectualized, overly scientific society...
...experienced baby sitter, he decided on pediatrics. He went to Princeton, starred in Triangle Club theatricals, even got an offer in 1940 to try out on Broadway for an Ethel Merman musical, Panama Hattie, but he held on to the goal of healing infants. His hero, he says, was Benjamin Spock, and although Brazelton is now regarded as the new Spock, he considers himself more a disciple than a rival of the older...
Moreover, from the first festivities, it was obvious that the developers and their principal architects, Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Inc., had overcome excessive commercialism with enterprising taste. Thompson is the creator of the festive markets in Boston, Baltimore and the Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C., due to open in September. The success of these places derives mainly from the mix and quality of the products sold and the people who sell them. Says Thompson: "We try to make shopping pleasurable and personal again. People dealing with people, with smells, movement, things to touch and taste-a full and free...
There came Brenda Fatigue, Regius Professor of Office Fashion, Ed Flue, Associate Professor of Logging: Burnside Marconi, Instructor in Televiewing: Syrup Concoct Poet-in-Residence: Benjamin Manila, Chairman of the Stationary Department: G. Root Garbage, Counselor in Veneral Diseases;...Heinz Pogrom, Horst Wessel Professor of German Philology: Gladys Bung, Dietary Tactician; Fifi Galleon, instructor in French Jobs; Catherine Thigh, Director of Sexual Services, Nicholas Syph, Bureaucracy Professor Emeritus...