Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monday, December 11, 1984. The Harvard Foundation hosted a reception and dinner for the honorable Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Executive Director of the NAACP. The event had a highly admirable purpose, the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the NAACP, but was handled in a most reprehensible manner. The Foundation brought Dr. Hooks to Harvard for a very private, invitation-only dinner attended by fewer than twenty undergraduates. Surely Dr. Counter who planned the festivities must have realized that a very large number of students, minority and majority, would have liked to have had the opportunity to hear Dr. Hooks speak...
...hosted a Freshman Brunch for over 700 persons; a Memorial Church service for 900 persons to celebrate the life and work of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize recipient; and the NAACP dinner for over 100 persons, including the organization's Executive Director, Dr. Benjamin Hooks, and his wife Frances Hooks. The Foundation is especially proud that all of these events were attended by students, faculty and staff of all races, backgrounds, colors and religions...
...calls we received from 'students and faculty thanking us for the invitations to our events. We were particularly touched by a recent note from a Black freshman who attended the NAACP dinner. It read in part: "Thank you very much for inviting me to enjoy and help honor Benjamin Hooks and other contributors to the NAACP....I am very much interested in helping the Foundations." This is the kind of participating spirit that the Foundation has endeavored to develop...
...faces on Mount Rushmore, but Benjamin Franklin has a position in American mythology that could hardly be loftier. Canny diplomat and dispenser of moral apothegms, scientist and pioneer in electrical experiment and theory, Franklin is everyone's favorite patriot, the kindly uncle of the American Revolution. There was, however, a dark side to the familiar beaming countenance, an aspect that might have come from one of Freud's case histories of an overheated family crucible. This provocative and enlightening account overturns the legend by examining William, Benjamin's only son, born out of wedlock in 1731. Once his father...
Mallon lists Pepys as a chronicler, one of seven categories of note takers. The others: travelers, pilgrims, creators, apologists, confessors and prisoners. To some degree these are arbitrary distinctions; the 19th century British painter Benjamin Haydon recorded his financial and artistic woes in 26 confidential volumes. As one of his last exhibitions fails, he laments, "They rush by thousands to see (Tom) Thumb. They push, they fight, they scream, they faint . . . They see my bills, my boards & don't read them." Months later he quotes King Lear, "Stretch me no longer on this tough World," and commits suicide...