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Behn
English dramatist, novelist, and poet, the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing. Her early life is obscure (as is her original surname), but she spent most of it in S. America. She married an English merchant named Behn in 1658. Her novel Oroonoko (1688), the story of an enslaved African prince who Behn knew in S. America, influenced the development of the English novel. Her first play, The Forc'd Marriage, was produced in 1671; her later witty comedies, such as the two-part The Rover (1677, 1681), were highly successful, and toward the end of her life she wrote many popular novels.
ren
In Confucianism, the most basic of all virtues, variously translated as "humaneness" or "benevolence." It originally denoted the kindness of rulers to subjects. Confucius identified ren as perfect virtue, and Mencius made it the distinguishing characteristic of humanity. In Neo-Confucianism it was a moral quality imparted by Heaven.
Arendt
German-U.S. political theorist. She obtained her doctorate from the Univ. of Heidelberg. Forced to flee the Nazis in 1933, she became a social worker in Paris, then fled again, to New York, in 1941. After several jobs related to Jewish culture, she wrote her major work, Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), which related totalitarianism to 19th-cent. anti-Semitism, imperialism, and the disintegration of the traditional nation-state. She taught at the Univ. of Chicago (1963-67) and thereafter at the New School for Social Research. Her controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) suggested that A. Eichmann's role in the extermination of the Jews epitomized the "banality of evil."
bean
Seed or pod of certain leguminous plants (see legume). The mature seeds of the principal food beans, except soybeans, are similar in composition, though they differ widely in eating quality. Rich in protein and providing moderate amounts of iron and vitamins B1 and B2, fresh or dried beans are used worldwide for cooking. Varieties differ greatly in size, shape, color, and tenderness of the immature pods. The common string, snap, or green bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) of Central and S. Amer. origin is the dominant edible-podded bean in the U.S., second to the soybean in importance. Third in importance is the broad, or fava, bean (Vicia faba), the principal bean of Europe. The lima bean (P. limensis), of Central Amer. origin, is commercially important in few countries outside the Americas. The scarlet runner bean (P. coccineus) is native to the New World tropics and is grown in Europe for its attractive flowers and fleshy immature pods. The mung bean, or green gram (P. aureus), is native to India and grown extensively in the Orient for food.
Behan
Irish author. An alcoholic from age 8 and an anti-English rebel, he was repeatedly arrested. Borstal Boy (1958) is an account of his detention in an English reform school, which combines earthy satire ...
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