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...official of the Fortune Society, an organization of ex-offenders. Although he was able to profit from meeting Welty, Brown knows that such encounters are rare. "Treatment is of no use to most people in today's prisons. The answer is almost to leave the prisons alone-almost benign neglect," he says. "Then divert massive resources to this society's disadvantaged children, the ones who are going to commit tomorrow's crime...
King Lear. This awesome drama sometimes seems to combine the four elements of the ancient world-earth, air, fire and water. The elements are not in their benign aspect, however, but viciously, terrifyingly distempered: earth as earthquake, air as hurricane, fire as holocaust and water as raging flood. What this production gives us is fallow earth, becalmed air, sputtering fire and stagnant water...
Contrary to your insinuations, Daniel P. Moynihan's "benign neglect" memorandum [May 5] did not recommend indifference to black needs. Why indeed would the author of the Family Assistance Plan, whose main beneficiaries would have been the black poor, have recommended such a policy? Writing in January 1970, Moynihan described the "extraordinary progress" blacks had made in the decade just ended and the various threats to that progress, including the pre-emption of the racial issue by "paranoids ... on all sides." He urged the President to pay "close attention to such progress" while seeking-and here is where benign...
...choice of Moynihan has not been confirmed by the White House; however, it is expected that Moynihan will go to the U.N. some time this summer. Now a professor of government at Harvard, he is best remembered for his confidential memo to Nixon setting forth the notion of "benign neglect" toward blacks. When the memo was leaked, it drew a stinging series of attacks from blacks and others, but Moynihan insisted he had only meant that black rhetoric should be taken less seriously, not black needs or aspirations...
...administrator pointed to a 1969 memo by Daniel P. Moynthan, professor of Government, to then-President Nixon advocating a period of "benign neglect" toward racial issues. Leonard said it resulted in a policy of "malignant retreat" from black people's progress...