Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your life stories of Gandhi and Benjamin Britten were masterpieces of observation, accuracy and coherency...
Finally, welcome to Peter Grimes and Benjamin Britten. Opera people everywhere hail its coming. Nevertheless, we shall always find inspiration in the great procession of music dramas and composers from Britten right back to Lully and Gluck...
...Benjamin Sills, Chairman of the Cambridge Progressive Citizens of America, reported that 50,000 signatures were required to place a candidate's name on the ballot. Cambridge's quota is 10,000 and Sills urged closer cooperation between the Committee and the PCA. Canvassing for signatures to provide delegates to the convention will get underway within a week or ten days...
...American Activities subcommittee put Communist Benjamin Davis, a New York City councilman and member of the Communist Party's national executive board, in its witness chair. Negro Ben Davis was happy at the chance to taunt the committee, which he called "tainted with illegality." He defied Congress to pass a bill requiring U.S. Communists to register as agents of a foreign nation, predicted that Communists would simply ignore it. Said Davis: "We . . . refuse to be put in the category of political suspects. . . . Gentlemen, it is not within your power to legislate the failure of this mighty movement...
...scientific committee (which included Benjamin Franklin and that most gruesome of inventors, Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin) investigated Mesmer and declared that his theories were unscientific. But the experiments went on. A later Viennese physician, Sigmund Freud, experimented for a while with electricity and hypnotism, and then abandoned hypnotism for his own techniques of psychoanalysis. He reasoned that a patient under hypnosis is apt to say what the physician wants him to say instead of revealing his "unconscious" mind. Besides, Freud decided, hypnotism's effects are too ephemeral and not everybody can be hypnotized...