Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rally was held at noon yesterday, featuring writers Conor Cruise O'Brien and Eric Bentley and folk-singer Phil Ochs. Among the professors who did not hold classes indoors today were James Shenton and Walter Metzger. Roger Hilsman, a Columbia professor and advisor to presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy '48, announced that he would be holding his class tomorrow at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
Some of the deaths were caused by the natural hazards of insurrection. Negro Construction Worker Harold Bentley, 34, was walking close to a smoldering Washington building when a wall collapsed on him. Lois T. Majette, 20, was killed when the car in which she was riding collided with a police cruiser on the way to Baltimore's riot scene. In all, despite disorders in 168 communities, only six lives were taken by rioters' anger...
...complex plot defies easy unraveling even in Eric Bentley's swift and supple version. In a historical pageant held 20 years before the action of the play begins in 1922, an Italian noble man (Kenneth Haigh) had his horse tripped by a rival for his mistress' favors. After the fall he went mad, imagining himself to be the character he had been impersonating in the pageant, the 11th century Emperor Henry IV of Germany. He lived in a villa complete with throne, courtiers and artifacts of the period. For the first twelve years after his accident, the pseudo...
...Among the quasi-Thoreaus: Nelson Algren, James Baldwin, Eric Bentley, Allen Ginsburg, Paul Goodman, Betty Friedan, Dwight Macdonald, Henry Miller, Terry Southern, Benjamin Spock, William Styron...
...prizefighter (José Torres) with a German shepherd. Norman has a protracted barking contest with the dog, and spars a round with Torres, demonstrating the killer-wombat style with which he has enlivened so many Manhattan parties. Toward the end, two broads arrive-one of them Beverly Bentley, the current Mrs. Mailer. She hands him a knife a couple of times, but nothing comes of it. After a while the money runs out, and the home movie just stops...