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...realistic colonialism of the British had benign effects. The idealistic stupidity of the Americans caused only trouble in the world. Politics is not a question of benevolence and popularity; it is one of intelligence and prudence...
Many a Senator and Representative, echoing the sentiments of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, have come to believe that Capitol Hill is the real seat of authority in the era of a benign President. This week the benign President reached down Pennsylvania Avenue to needle the Capitol seat of authority...
Back in 1955, when Soviet Communism wanted to smile, shake hands and play pen pals with the West after Stalin's death, the Kremlin had use for Bulganin's smooth good looks, benign good manners, and easy way with a glass. Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster. "A real gentleman;' cooed a French chorus girl from a visiting troupe he once called on backstage at the Bolshoi...
...this spoof of Roman historians and their stuffy translators, Robert Graves makes two major misstatements about himself. He is not cynical, being far too intelligent and benign for that, and he is certainly not mute, being one of the most relentlessly prolific authors now at work. The book jacket of his latest collection of miscellaneous pieces says, "There is only one Robert Graves," but this is patently untrue. There are many-the poet, novelist, critic, scholar, mythologist, essayist, general literary pundit and japester. All of them in this thoroughly entertaining volume are in top form...
...runs 110 pages--a gamut of essays, poems, short stories, reviews, and even a play. The editors launch the issue with a benign note to the effect that they intend to publish writers more interested in art than market...