Word: benning
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...return to a mythical historical past in which Horatio Alger individualism was unhampered by monopoly power. Such a vision, reminiscent of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, presupposes a peculiarly slanted view of American history--one which Julian loses no time in expounding. He tells the senators that "Roger Williams, Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, Tom Paine, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Lincoln and the Roosevelts" shared a single "collective vision" of America as "a nation of independent and self-reliant individuals who are free because equal in wealth and power equal in opportunity if not status." It goes without saying that no such...
...didn't expect to win," coach Ben Zivkovic said later. "We went out there to fence well and hope to win, but it's never a sure thing," he added...
Unlike most of the artists whose works are in Faculty '76, Ben Lifson had the luck to assemble a cohesive and slightly more comprehensive collection photographs. (Significantly, he is one of the few faculty members who bother to comment on their work in the explanatory notes attached to each flat...
...these labels and appellations do nothing more than reinforce the historic assumption of minority deficiency and strengthen the expectation that oppressed people will fail. Those assumptions and expectations are not new, but have been long ingrained in the hearts and minds of the white majority and have ben instilled in the psyches of minority groups. The ante-bellum Black Codes, for instance, systematically directed and demanded the infliction of a feeling of inferiority on all Black people in America. And later, the Dred Scott v. Sanford and Plessy v. Ferguson decisions refined and confirmed the white man's right...
...battle of the Nielsens that put the TV networks in a toe-to-toe fight for first place. It was a tug of war and other picnic sports at Pepperdine University in southern California, featuring stars such as ABC's Lynda (Wonder Woman) Carter, NBC's Ben (Gemini Man) Murphy and CBS's Telly (Kojak) Savalas. In all, 24 prime-time principals channeled their energies into swimming, running and biking-all for the sake of a Nov. 13 ABC special titled Battle of the Network Stars. The winner on the playing fields of Pepperdine...