Word: benignant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...write-up about the Harvard Coop, The Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard 1995-96 compares the Coop to the Core: "Both try to be all things and are outdone by specialists. Both, while sporadically frustrating, are essentially benign. And both are inescapable during four years at Harvard." This is the premise on which the Core Review Committee is operating (whether it admits it or not): the Core is good, the Core is fallible and the Core is staying...
...another, holistic memory emerges. A record of the town history that eludes the wants and needs of particular souls takes shape and begins to take on a sort of independent, convincing veracity. Were it not for witnesses--that is, friends, lovers, and family--audiences would hear the most benign version of events, and dead souls' painful memories would be comfortably elided from their personal histories...
...while one can wink at this kind of officially sanctioned primitivism, there is one outbreak of officially sanctioned primitivism that is not benign and that cannot be winked at: the sensational "abuse" trials in which teachers and parents are jailed on the most improbable charges of ritualistic, orgiastic Satanism since the Salem witch trials...
...this time of heartless corporate mergers and takeovers, where a rumor of cutting jobs can send the Dow skyrocketing, it's nice to know that some takeovers are still benign...
...associated with Parkinson's disease -- have twice the risk of death of those without the condition. Additionally, the authors conclude that nearly one in five people are afflicted by the condition. Previously, researchers believed the symptoms of parkinsonism, which include tremors, rigid movements, extreme slowness and shuffling gait, were benign manifestations of aging. But after studying 467 elderly Bostonians over nine years, scientists concluded the 159 with parkinsonism had a higher mortality rate. TIME's Janice Horowitz says the study points to the need to consider parkinsonism as a serious illness. "While unfortunately nothing much can currently be done...