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...days that ended in 1959 when his steamroller tactics lost him the support of his own Christian Democratic Party colleagues. Fanfani learned from the experience, came back last year wiser in the ways of cooperating and compromising. Today Fanfani has the parliamentary support of three other parties and the benign abstention of the powerful Nenni Socialists. Though the Communist Party polled one-third of the votes in last fall's election, the actual number of card-carrying Communists in Italy declined...
...Golden himself had his own identification trouble. Fat, bespectacled and benign, he looked enough like Eichmann's defense counsel, Robert Servatius, that he was on occasion besieged by other newsmen and photographers...
...general who was trained at Britain's Sandhurst, Ayub has a soldier's dislike for politicians. In Ayub's Pakistan, politicking is literally a crime: criticism of his government is punishable by 14 years' hard labor. But under his benign rule, few have actually been sent to the workhouse, and in the nearly three years since he peaceably ejected the squabbling, corrupt politicians in exasperation and took over the government, he has made a spirited assault on Pakistan's multitude of ills...
...Sensitivity" will be our slogan), and I shall nominate Arthur Freeman to charter membership. "Cambridge Seasonal" is an urbane, amusing, richly textured, and formal satire on Cambridge. The characters are old Cambridge ladies "in black woolens," young Cambridge lovers "who link, unlink, attach, detach," professors "with owlish eyes, benign white features, glossy skin, and crystal-clear clock-work within," a townie "with raw brown eyes, red hands, warts, weatherbeaten levis, and a real beery leer," and even a Radcliffe girl ("Something from Radcliffe cycles by"). And the consistently gentle tone and florid style of the speaker himself bespeak...
...genuine Texas intellectual with "a benign poker face," Galveston-born Chancellor Ransom, 52, was educated at Tennessee's University of the South and at Yale, began teaching English at Texas in 1935, turned to administration in 1951. Among other achievements, Bibliophile Ransom has made the university one of the country's richest repositories of rare manuscripts. Since 1957 Texas has picked up more than 100 private libraries and collections, including original manuscripts by famed modern authors, from James Joyce to Ernest Hemingway, from e. e. cummings to A. A. Milne...