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Theophilus, however, has a sense of humor. He is the first to admit that his only weapons are charm, some mild Freudian therapy, a gift for mendacity and the kind of benign chicanery that in old-fashioned stories used to help gentle, truthful and kindly people at the expense of the rapacious, the pretentious and the proud. Indeed, most of the crises North confronts are genteel and domestic: incipient misalliances (to be blocked), henpecked husbands (to be liberated) and the ill effects of ghastly rumors (to be laid to rest...
...recording system when he took office because he didn't like that sort of thing. It was a system which existed under Johnson and Kennedy. They didn't tape everything automatically, the way he did. But I would make the argument that something like this is a much more benign system if it's triggered automatically than if it's triggered selectively, as they...
Forty years on, his verses were full of more benign reflections upon all sorts of things, including his own youthful works: "The class whose vices/ he pilloried was his own,/ now extinct, except/ for long survivors like him/ who remember its virtues...
...swaddled in decaying sheets affords little protection against the erosions of time. The newer wings, like the younger Bayard, are cast in the same traditional mold, but lack individual presence, and only make a mockery of emulation. And as each room's individual history is revealed, the mansion's benign cool-white exterior loses its gracious dignity...
...author of the Administration's infelicitous phrase "benign neglect" ought to know when to leave well enough alone, and that is exactly what U.S. Ambassador to India Daniel P. Moynihan counseled from New Delhi not long ago in a wry cable to the State Department. The Agency for International Development had made a promise to the Indian government in April that an AID apartment-dining complex would be turned over to India. Two weeks ago Moynihan made good on the promise. Later the same day the State Department cabled him to hold up the gift, hoping to retain...