Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before in Harlan Stone's 20 years on the Court, four years and ten months as Chief Justice. Now, at 73, he was the Court's dean as well as its chief. He looked fit. His broad-chinned, wide-mouthed face reflected vigor, good nature and a benign judicial...
...Proletarian in front of the Holford Square house in which he had once lived. Since then, the dead-white bust on its red marble base has had nary a moment's peace. Time & again it has been defaced-once with black paint of such tenacity that the slyly benign features remained permanently piebald...
Gaitered Ghost. One by one, Lewis' fellow excursionists fail to find Heaven to their liking. Most outspoken: the liberal theologian, a fat, gaitered ghost with a cultured voice and "a bright clerical smile," who clings to his benign skepticism and open mind even in the forefields of Heaven. An old orthodox friend says to him: "We know nothing of religion here: we think only of Christ. We know nothing of speculation. Come and see. I will bring you to Eternal Fact, the Father of all other facthood...
...stuff as dreams are made on-fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish. Shakespeare's brain begot such villains and monsters as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Caliban in The Tempest, Leontes in The Winter's Tale. But terror and tragedy took shape only to melt away at last in benign late-afternoon sunlight...
...Benign, balding "Prexy" MacCracken approaches the core curriculum with well-considered irreverence. "Who wants to eat the core?" he asked. "There is too much diversity in this world for students of 18 to be forced on a single diet. The bill of fare is too rich for that. ["If a woman is old enough to marry," MacCracken told an alumnae meeting, "she is old enough to decide what to study."] I am for diversity. I like to meet people who know nothing about my subject.* I can learn from them and I can tell them something. It makes conversation...