Word: benno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Albert Innaurato's sensibility operating from a totally different angle of vision, one needs to attend his one-acter The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie, which is part of a double bill called Monsters at off-Broadway's Astor Place Theater. In contrast to Gemini, Blimpie is as joyous as a bleeding welt. It is a lacerating look at adolescence from the freakish vantage point of a boy of 14 who weighs...
...grand jury hearing is not an adversary proceeding with the stringent rules of evidence and the right of cross-examination that exist in a trial. Prosecutors present material that may produce an indictment, but a suspect puts up no organized defense. Says Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt: "What you get if the press prints a story about a grand jury proceeding is by definition a one-sided story. The press has always, typically, published that kind of story without built-in qualifications." Many journalists are also uneasy. Howard Simons, managing editor of the Post, admits that violating grand jury secrecy...
...selection has, in fact, become a well-developed legal art. The U.S. has been through a dozen years of sensational trials-Angela Davis, the Chicago Seven, Charles Manson, Jack Ruby -and jury fairness was almost never seriously challenged. The same should be true for Watergate. Columbia Constitutional Law Professor Benno Schmidt Jr. carefully states the widely shared view of experts: "It's entirely possible to get a trial which is both fair in the sense that the average person thinks of as fair, and also fair in the legal sense of satisfying due-process standards." Adds the University...
This same danger of inconsistency troubles Benno C. Schmidt Jr., professor at Columbia University School of Law. While the President has been charged with some misconduct in office that appears to be unique, other accusations against him-ordering wiretaps, auditing the tax returns of political opponents-have been true of past Presidents as well. "Impeachment should be limited to serious crimes as defined in the general criminal law and beyond that, to only very serious abuses of public office," says Schmidt. "Impeachment and removal can't be haphazard. They should not impeach one President unless they are willing...
...most impressive duo playing of the evening was in the Benno Ammann Repons du Matin: Two Pieces for Trumpet and Organ. Composed in 1969 for Tarr and Kent, the demands on the trumpet player are extraordinary. With amazing precision, Tarr coped with various jazz-like fragments, brutally syncopated rhythms, and the closest of harmonies. Even when using a mute, he did not lose subtle shadings of tone...