Word: benignantly
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...Tubby, benign Pierre Monteux, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, came asaving. Last fortnight, his shoe-button eyes shining, Monteux was in the pit at Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg theater. Onstage as Orfeo was Kathleen Ferrier (TIME, March 14), the English girl whose sumptuous contralto has earned her first title to the role. The rest of the cast, including a first-rate soprano named Greet Koeman, was Dutch...
...sculpture to his talents and triumphs, just as he may well get himself into more political rumpuses. After all his travels, however, Diego knows where home is. Happily fingering and musing over his pre-Cortesian sculptures, he looks like one of the statues himself-big-bellied, self-contained, benign, timeless...
Opponents feared that some less benign censorship might replace the traditional office, now held by the 71-year-old Earl of Clarendon. But the House gave the bill a second-reading vote of 76 to 37 to push it along toward passage...
Actually, say Dr. Allan and co-worker Dr. Manuel Kaufman in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, benign nervousness is a lot more common than the nasty, malignant (psychoneurotic) kind. One way to tell the difference: the patient with the benign kind is pleased if he is told there's nothing wrong with him physically; the true neurotic is apt to be disappointed...
...general practitioner, think Allan & Kaufman, can usually take care of benign nervousness. Talking things over is often enough; the patient should have a chance to tell his story. Sedatives like phenobarbital often help; so does religion. Most general practitioners, who suspect that psychiatrists put too much emphasis on the psyche in psychosomatic, would agree...