Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First on my list is R.A. d'Hulst's four volume edition of Jordaen's Drawings. My second Christmas book is Archibald MacLeish's The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn printed by Harvard Press. Also, Nicholson and Troutman's Letters of Virginia Woolf--I expect to find them under my tree Christmas morning...
...from her second marriage. Michael and his girl friend whipped up a vegetarian banquet for the prodigal pair, complete with a local soup in honor of Welshman Burton. Mother Liz pronounced the meal "one of the best," which was also her judgment of a rock group, Solar Ben, in which the versatile Michael plays trumpet, flute and guitar...
...striking resemblance to Ben Franklin...
...married in Milwaukee, was less positive than his bride about Zionism. The marriage dissolved; the son and daughter remained with Golda and Morris disappeared into the shadows of history. He died in obscurity in Tel Aviv in 1951. Golda, changing her name to the Hebrew Meir ("Illuminate") at David Ben-Gurion's order, developed into "a public person and not a homebody." As the world knows, the former kibbutznik became political worker and global fund raiser for the Palestinian Jews. After Israel's independence in 1948, she progressed still higher: Ambassador to Moscow, Labor Minister, Foreign Minister, finally...
...Kennedy surprised her with his unpresidential boyishness. Charles de Gaulle, she remembers, paid her an un precedented compliment at Kennedy's funeral by starting a conversation in English. John Foster Dulles was "that cold gray man obsessed with his own brinkmanship." Her associates get little more charity: Ben-Gurion is recalled as "not a man to whom one could be close...