Word: benning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan plays Walter Burns, the tough managing editor of the Chicago Examiner, and Bert Convy plays Hildy Johnson, his top reporter, in this revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the 1920s. The play has a cornball period flavor that adds to the enjoyment...
...S.D.S. group that tried to approach an Army recruiting table on Thursday ran into hundreds of right-wing students chanting "S.D.S., go to hell." The rightists hustled the radicals off campus in a melee that ended with S.D.S. Organizers Douglas Bernhardt and Barti Haile, both nonstudents, being treated at Ben Taub Hospital for cuts and bruises. > Stanford activists published a 31-page collection of university documents that were "liberated" (stolen) during a sit-in last May. Among them: a detailed list of faculty salaries, plus strong evidence that Stanford values researchers far more than teachers. According to the filched papers...
...skeptical attitude toward the documentary affects the way we approach the exhibition of Ben Shahn photographs currently at the Fog Museum. Labels reading " Destitute Ozark Residents" underneath a group of these pictures may offend the contemporary social conscience, acquainted with the pathos of poverty. Shahn, one of the first to make this kind of photograph, tried to awaken a complacent audience to the horrors of the thirties...
Like his photography, Ben Shahn's paintings, particularly the series on Sacco and Vanzetti, reveal his concern with social injustice. He stressed the social function of his art rather than its aesthetic value. Photography he regarded purely as a means of documentation. He shot prisons, bales of hay, store fronts and the tasteless side shows at the circus. Never acknowledging their artistic possibilities, he used his photographs as material for his painting. Photographs helped him recall details about the way people looked...
Philadelphia has a lot to be proud of. It produced such notables as Ben Franklin. Bobby Rydell, Frankie Ayalon, and Dick Clark. In addition to being the site of Drexel Institute of Technology, it is the home of the University of Pennsylvania. The Eljer urinal in the CRIMSON bathroom was made in Philadelphia. These accomplishments are certainly enough reason for any city to be a proud one. And Philadelphia, in particular Penn, thought it would add to this fine record this fall with the best Ivy League teams in football, soccer, and cross country...