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...tranquil, so quiescent seems Black America in the Nixon Era that a presidential partisan could well argue that "benign neglect" has worked. The ghettos have, by and large, endured quiet summers. The rhetoric of black militants seems to have cooled. In a variety of ways, in increasing numbers, blacks are cracking the system -slowly, no doubt, but making it nevertheless...
Asked at the tea about the memorandum in which he recommended to Nixon a policy of "benign neglect" toward America's racial problem. Moynihan explained that "I meant we must stop looking at people as primarily white or black: we should concentrate on the progress blacks have been making, not on racial rhetoric...
Riding the Wind. Next, the defense began calling upon other members of the Manson "family" to describe their lives with him. The object was to portray Manson as a benign figure. Lynette Alice Fromme, 22, a small, freckled girl nicknamed "Squeaky," said that she first met Manson when her father, an aeronautical engineer, kicked her out of the house in Redondo Beach. In Venice, Calif., Squeaky said, "I was sitting down crying and a man walked up and said, 'Your father kicked you out of the house, did he?' And that was Charlie." She joined his nomadic tribe...
Each installment has seemed more amusing and airy but at the same time less real and telling than its predecessor. Desperation gave way to melancholy, which in turn yielded to benign human comedy. The wit, charm and felicity characteristic of Truffaut are abundant in Bed and Board. But now the ingredients are a little too predictable, and perhaps a little forced as well. There is much fun, but a scarcity of energy and insight...
Nixon praised Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who is resigning as his adviser on urban affairs to return to his post as professor of Education here, saying that criticism of Moynihan's secret memo proposing a policy of "benign neglect" toward the problems of blacks in America...