Word: benignantly
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...beneath blue skies, benign and contented amid the pageant of the colorings of fall. Aspens turning gold flecked the dense green forests and bleak grey sides of the Rockies; maples turning orange and red spread a magic fire across the dour woods of Minnesota; dahlias glowed purple, pink and coral beside the dark-flowering plums in the gardens of Longview, Wash. By night, the pageant continued amid a blaze of lights of county fairs where Ferris wheels turned and hot dogs sizzled and barkers exhorted...
...world," consisting of representatives from England, India, and Switzerland, looked at America last night through three rather benign pairs of eyes in the final event in the "Series of Special Events in the Arts...
...will probably find it also highly scandalous. Patrickstown is all right in its own way-only an hour's jaunt out of Dublin, with good fishing, cozy drinking facilities, its inhabitants (now that Lord Patrickstown, the last of the Protestant gentry, is a convert) sleeping peacefully under the benign but totalitarian rule of Roman Catholic Canon Ignatius Peart. The canon's only worries are the prevalence of love in the hayricks and the difficulty of raising funds to fit his parish house with an upstairs bathroom (which the local water pressure will not reach...
...Switzerland, fat, sad ex-King Farouk of Egypt, who still cherishes the notion that he was a benign despot, succeeded in looking like a benign father. His three daughters (Ferial, Fadia, Fawzia) are by Farida, his first wife, who in three tries bore him no male heirs. At his knee, Farouk fondly held Prince Ahmed Fuad II, 3, a winsome lad and sole product of his second queen, Narriman Sadek...
...avoid upsetting students who cannot face the reality of their condition−it dealt with 72 patients in May, still had 36 last week although vacations were beginning. Six miles from the city's center, at Sceaux, is a 15-bed university home for more serious but still "benign" cases. Last week it was full to capacity, with eight men and seven women suffering from "anguish neuroses," adaptation difficulties, depression, and exam paralysis. A second home, with 50 beds, is scheduled to open in January. But the need will still be far in excess of supply...