Word: benjamin
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CLASSICAL: N.E.C. Symphony Orchestra; Benjamin Zander, conductor; music of Beethoven and Stravinsky; Jordan Hall; Wednesday...
...have been reluctant to commit their dollars, so the nightly 9-to-midnight programming goes free of charge to 5.1 million cable subscribers. The most highbrow of all the culture cables, ARTS has offered a complete performance of Handel's Messiah, documentaries on the lives of Tchaikovsky and Benjamin Britten, and an analysis of a painting by English Artist George Stubbs, The Grosvenor Hunt...
Reagan does have U.S. history in favor of his new campaign. From Benjamin Franklin, organizing Philadelphia's fire department (even today 85% of U.S. fire fighters are volunteers), to the army of people who now donate their time to hospitals, schools, museums and town governments, Americans are predisposed to good works. In 1980 individuals donated $43 billion to charity, on the average 1.8% of their incomes. One of every four Americans does some form of volunteer work...
...once again raised the question of just how much OPEC money is being invested in U.S. industry and whether the infusions of funds are good or bad for the businesses involved and for the U.S. as a whole. As soon as the Kuwaiti proposal was announced, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs, which has been holding hearings on the scope of OPEC investment in the U.S., asked the Treasury to halt the takeover pending an investigation of whether the merger is really in the national interest...
...sitting down to write, few since the founding fathers have proved to be on more than speaking terms with the language (a present-day exception: Daniel Patrick Moynihan). The British Parliament, on the other hand, has always been a veritable academy of accomplished scribblers, as the examples of Benjamin Disraeli, A.P. Herbert, Winston Churchill-and now Foot-attest. This may not necessarily make for better politics, but it is surely a comfort to the mother tongue...