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...Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government and chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education, last night lauded the Council committee, asserting that it conducted "one of the most carefully prepared investigations . . . I've ever heard...
...evening gathering held at the Signet Society; Clemens Heller 2G and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, addressed a group of faculty members, University administrative officials, and students about the history, achievements, and prospects of the Seminar...
PORTRAIT FOR POSTERITY (329 pp.)-Benjamin P. Thomas-Rutgers University...
Although, as Lincoln Scholar Benjamin P. Thomas wrote, "Lincoln was loved and hated, lauded and blamed, as few men have been before or since," the hero myth got off to a head start. It dominated Lincoln literature until the end of the 19th Century. Josiah Holland's Life, which appeared within a year of Lincoln's death plugged the theme that Lincoln was model youth and had made the grade through pure idealism. Its sale of more than 100,000 copies indicated to many royalty-conscious writer how the average reader liked his Lincoln served-only the palatable...
...principal and contrasting figures are the French adventurer and comedy writer, Beaumarchais (he wrote The Barber of Seville), who procured arms for the Continental Army, and the 71-year-old sage, Benjamin Franklin, first Minister to France. Feuchtwanger does best at picturing Franklin's patient and crafty life in the grassy suburb of Passy, writing and printing his bagatelles of satire on his own hand press, enjoying his hot bath in a lidded tub of his own design (on which visitors could sit while he soaked), gravely carrying on his gallantries with French women and using his popularity...