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...year-old drinking age. However, most Harvard students found last spring that King's legal grip did not extend far into Harvard Houses. The ban on House happy hours decided by the House masters in April lasted for about a week--students and masters viewed each other with benign neglect...
...that may seem too much for a 384-page book to accomplish, but Lessing's premise gives her aeons of time to fill. Scouts from the benign galactic empire Canopus discover a small but promising planet, obviously the young earth, whose denizens include a strain of monkeys beginning to stand on their own two feet. The Canopeans introduce a race of superior creatures to tutor these humanoids and help speed their evolution. Eventually, the planet, called Rohanda, is deemed ready to be locked into the vast, overarching harmony that prevails throughout the domain of Canopus...
...failed him--Sellars falters too. Splicing in whole minutes of Kurt Weill music to back up the leather-jacketed, bar-stool Gibichungs may be a justified comment on their theatrical value in Wagner's original scheme. It also, however, shatters with an axe-stroke of cynicism the mood of benign humor that prevails until them. The musical effect is appalling, the lapse in taste alarming...
...going to be a great power if we keep going as we are," Schlesinger says. "The Soviet Union's intentions are not benign. So many people grew up after the Berlin crisis. They would not accept the true face of Communism in Hanoi and elsewhere. It used to be so much fun to discover our own moral defects. It is not so much fun any longer. These people labored under the notion that if we were sufficiently lovable, others would be drawn to us. Our young had so much security in the postwar world that they felt...
...England's planes may make as many as 18 departures a day. Result: even if the weather is benign and the engines work fine, the routine delays of ten or 15 minutes that occur at each stop can make a plane one or even two hours late by day's end. Many travelers consider it no small victory if they and their luggage arrive at the same destination at the same time. In some cases, when a plane is fully loaded, the airline may simply keep the bags at the airport and send them out on the next...