Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shift from protest to politics, some venerable black institutions ironically are getting left behind. The N.A.A.C.P., once the pre-eminent champion of racial justice, is rived by internal feuding. The bitter personality clash between Chairman Margaret Bush Wilson and Executive Director Benjamin Hooks took an unexpected twist last week when Wilson bowed to pressure from 2 angry board members and | backed down from her decision to suspend Hooks. Then she, instead, was asked by the board to resign...
...been adrift for almost a decade, and its membership has been halved to fewer than 200,000. Now open mutiny seems to have broken out at the top. With a curt letter sent last week, Margaret Bush Wilson, chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. board of directors, summarily suspended Executive Director Benjamin Hooks...
...SURELY no modern audience is often asked to expend the kind of mental effort that keeping up with The School for Scandal requires. The plot is spiderwebbed from the beginning: a "school" of conniving gossips with names like Benjamin Backbite. Lady Sneer-well, and Mr. Snake, whose greatest pleasure is to ruin the reputations of upright citizens through rumor. Lady Sneerwell (Shirley Wilber), it turns out, is also passing the time by angling for the heart of a young heir to-be-named Charles Surface (Stephen Rowe); her strategy is to connive with Charles's brother Joseph (Tony Shalhoub...
...nattering and bickering of her circle of gossips, she nevertheless tends to hold the center of attention. The flock of reprobates around her project a great many varieties of competent villainy, from the goodnatured profligacy of Stephen Rowe as Charles to the simpering idiocy of Thomas Derrah as Benjamin Backbite. The ART also has lived up to its Faculty duties by casting several undergraduates, including Maggie Topkis '83 as a maidservant and Nick Wyse '84 as one of Charles's circle of drinking companions. Judging from the results, the ART can only benefit from more such collaborations...
...Benjamin recalls one collector of rare autographs who verified, wholly by accident, that his priceless document containing the signatures of all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was genuine. A hurricane had caused the paper to be submerged in water for five days. When he retrieved it, the owner found to his relief that all the signatures remained clear and bright. They had been written with iron-gall ink on rag paper...