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...BRUSTEIN'S VISION of the benefits theater and university offer each other goes beyond the details of courses and shows. The exchange is meant to be scholarly, intellectual, academic in the most benign sense: the university shelters the theater, gives it space, limited financial support, and a presumably interested audience; the theater gives the university a "living library" of drama for its members to consult...
...voiced overwhelming support for the plan to reorganize the structure of College governance. The Faculty will vote on specific legislation regarding the plan next fall, after committees working on implementation of the new system complete their work. The vote this week demonstrates what Dean Rosovsky called the Faculty's "benign" attitude toward the Dowling plan, which many Faculty members said would improve the efficiency and responsibility of College government...
FROM THE BALCONY of his third-floor suite in New Quincy. Theos McKinney peers into the House library and surveys his empire. "I've taken an attitude of benign neglect towards the whole thing during reading period," He says, observing the massive heap of comics and near-empty racks. "Usually I take an hour or so each week to set them all straight...
...audience to laugh at the noble exploits of working-class jousters. The Camelot caravan juggles lofty ideals and hand-to-mouth reality as it journeys from one small town to another, exhibiting swordsmanship in battles where fellowship precariously reigns and only feelings get hurt. They are the most benign of outlaws; they embody the spirit of regional cinema...
...interpret the mandate as his very own, as an individual summons to overhaul his special part of the System. No one is more zealous than James Watt, 43, the lanky, brusque Secretary of the Interior. His soft voice and thick glasses make him seem a little like a benign mortician, but that could be misleading. For Jim Watt has all the self-righteous conviction of the born-again Christian that he is, and his goal is no less ambitious than converting America's soul about harvesting its vast natural resources...