Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced from University of California's English Professor Benjamin H. Lehman, Actress Anderson lives near Hollywood with her 80-year-old mother in a rambling white house overlooking the Pacific, gardens, rides, shuns bright lights. Though she makes movies from time to time (Rebecca, Kings Row), Hollywood spells security for her, not art. Says she: "In Hollywood, you merely do Scene 22 at nine, Scene 16 at eleven, Scene 7 at three. It's a good place to learn...
...words speak for themselves. The old distinctions of American thinkers into Federalists and Democrats, agrarians, mercantilists, industrialists, capitalists lose importance in the face of united insistence abroad on the superiority, the inevitable future growth of America. Not only Jefferson, John Adams and Tom Paine were united in this. Benjamin Rush, Surgeon General during part of the Revolution, calmly declared after it that two-thirds of Pennsylvania's farmers had reached "the perfection of civilization." Even the occasional doubting moods of the Founding Fathers were spirited, compared with the dry despair of later scholars like Henry Adams, or the nebulous...
...later years Caroline Webster sometimes watered a redheaded parrot in the belief that it was a geranium. But when she reached England with the statesman she always calls "Mr. W," she was still in her prime and determined to miss nothing. England was impressed by rugged, eloquent Mr. W. Benjamin Disraeli noticed Webster's "fine brow, lofty, broad, and beetled, deepset eyes." Wrote Philosopher Carlyle to Emerson: "He is a magnificent specimen...
...Benjamin Franklin's advice about hanging together might well be repeated to the men who are supposed to be doing something to alleviate the toils and troubles of manpower allocation. While every newspaper, lecture, and political analyst in the country shouts the absolute necessity of a quick solution, the important groups controlling large numbers of men are having their own private little...
Opposing him, however, Benjamin F. Wright, associate professor of Government, stated that the election was not decided on a party basis but rather on the merits of the individual men concerned...