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...have already caused 60% of the foreign businessman in Argentina to leave the country in the past year. If the abductions continue, they could jeopardize an economy already deeply troubled by razor-thin profits and lack of capital investment by private industry. Prodded by such concerns, Peron reversed his benign neglect of Argentina's frightened foreigners and made a point of receiving the Ford vice president for Asia, the Pacific and Latin America, Edgar Molina; it was the first time that Peron had met with a U.S. businessman since returning from exile last June. He told Molina that...
Lorenz is a fine observer of animals, Fromm concedes, who unfortunately "decided to venture out into a field in which he had little experience or competence, that of human behavior." Men and animals do fight instinctively to protect their vital interests -Fromm calls this "benign" aggression-but "only man seems to take pleasure in destroying life without any reason or purpose other than that of destroying." It is this "malignant" aggression that Lorenz has failed to identify and that now threatens man's very survival...
...Bible. He sympathized while he remonstrated with the errant public servants, and redemption was always possible. Ervin intended the investigation to educate the American people, and he succeeded. In turn, he became a culture hero, filling lecture halls with adoring audiences, inspiring youngsters to don T shirts bearing his benign image...
...harm, questing princes, and, above all, trolls and tomtes. Trolls, as everyone knows, are huge, gnarly creatures. They have tails, live for three or four thousand years, and seem to be fond of putting children into frying pans. Tomtes, on the other hand, are small (ten inches tall), benign and clever. The illustrator, John Bauer, who died in 1918, seems to have been Sweden's answer to Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle. A fondness for somber colors makes him a good deal better at painting trolls than princes...
When political decisions are out of the hands of the public, popular ideas about how those decisions are made are likely to be astoundingly wrong. That so many Americans still believe that this country's military presence in Vietnam was the consequence only of accidents, miscalculations, and basically benign intentions is the most striking recent example...