Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jewish oppression, making heroes of Soviet prisoners-of-conscience and discrediting victims of Argentinean anti-Semitism and political repression. And now the attack is carried on in Crimson "book review" (so little of the article actually dealt with the book that I hesitate to use the term) by Daniel Benjamin. Timer man once again is Enemy No. 1 of Israel, the Jewish People, and, it appears, literature in general...
...proliferation of "Sing-Ins," in which audiences buy or bring scores to a performance and sight-read the chorus under the direction of host-provided conductors. The most unusual such event this may come at Currier House on Sunday, as concert-planners hope to include a sight-singing of Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols in a performance by the Currier Singers...
...fulfilled: four of the last seven winners of the Academy Award for Best Picture (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rocky, Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire) were released in major cities between Labor Day and the end of November. In 1980 viewers could see Raging Bull, Private Benjamin and The Elephant Man. Last year there were The French Lieutenant's Woman, Ragtime and Absence of Malice...
Nick Wyse as Romeo supports her admirably, as does Benjamin Evett as a surprisingly young and hip friar Lawrence, who appears to function essentially as Romeo's freshman proctor. (In one of the show's nicest and most economical touches. Romeo, visiting Lawrence's cell grabs a Coke from the fridge before settling down on the bed to confess.) Rauch occasionally requires this thoroughly alert crew to do something odd--kill one another with picnic cutlery, for instance, or mutely clutch miscellaneous blankets and bedding around their shoulders in mourning for Juliet's initial "death." But the cast tends...
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, long known for its sunny beaches and mellow populace, has developed into the intensive legal battle-ground for draft registration. In San Diego, enforcement began last June, when 21-year-old Humboldt State University student Benjamin H. Sasway was indicted. And in Los Angeles, where federal officials are now fighting to prosecute 21-year-old former Yale University student David Wayte, the whole system could come tumbling down...