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...paramount mission and destiny of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foot Soldiers of the Law | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...picture in Gotham. It is acceptable as metaphor, inconvenient as reality, something to be ignored in the hopes that it will go away, like a pinging in your Mercedes motor. It is a measure of this powerfully vicious and powerfully funny satire on Hollywood-undoubtedly the least benign movie about moviemakers ever released -that the only character with completely decent instincts is the runner's faithful dog, who stands by his man to the end, trying to call attention to his plight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Biting the Hand of Hollywood | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...most celebrated resident of Yorkshire since Lassie, and for many of the same reasons. A friend to farmers and their livestock, as benign as the summer climate, he has made loyalty and kindness the crowning virtues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Marcus Welby of the Barnyard | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

During the past two weeks the 34th Paris Air Show, sponsored by French industry, has been a fascinating arena of benign contention: symbols of war and peace mixed together in display and in flight. In spirit, the competition suggested the jousts held on the same French fields by knights centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Symbols of War and Peace | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

Some, though, tell a different story: they insist HRE is wrought with waste, that its single mission it to make money for the University, and they are the victims. "Sometime in the mid-1970s, Harvard reviewed its policies on real estate. Until then, we had seen benign neglect; now they are in a new abrasive, expansionist phase," Michael Turk, principal organizer of the Harvard Tenants Union, says...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Harvard Real Estate Inc.: | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

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