Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more benign mood, he once wooed a prospective screenwriter: "I'll do anything for you. You can't sleep with your wife any more? You're crazy about a starlet? I'll let you take her down to Stage Eight, and I'll stand outside and guard the door...
...Greek polypodos, many-footed) near the President's vocal cord is a soft growth that looks something like a miniature octopus. Polyps are common in many parts of the body; misuse of the vocal cords seems to encourage their development in the larynx. The great majority are benign tumors, but while the President is still under the anesthetic, his polyp will be cut up and examined under the microscope to make sure there is no malignancy. Removal is a simple matter of inserting a tube with a light at the end down the throat and slipping a basket-shaped...
...largest academic underground operates within the confines of San Francisco State College, where a benign administration last winter permitted students to organize an experimental college that featured New Left Idol Paul Goodman (Growing Up Absurd) as a seminar leader. Operating out of three jerry-built huts on campus, the shadow school now has 70 courses ranging from "Competition and Violence" to "Gestalt Therapy" to "Kinesthetics." There is no charge for the seminar-like courses, which take place in the evening, and are taught by both students and members of State's faculty. Enrollment this fall...
...rocker! It was all rather nasty, unhealthy, and yet somehow not un-Jewish-not that any of them really gave much of a damn about being Jewish. Then anger turned to consternation when it developed that Mama was really planning the most Jewish act of her life: under the benign influence of Mr. Ellenbogan, Mama was going to endow an Israeli university with a great chunk of the family fortune...
...mind. And to show you how flexible the medium is, let us assume that you have a close-up of Mr. Stewart. He looks, and we cut to a woman nursing a baby. Cut back to Mr. Stewart. He smiles. Now what is Mr. Stewart? He's a benign gentlemen. Take away the middle piece of film, have both the close-ups -- the look and the response -- and insert a shot of a girl in a bikini. He looks, girl in bikini, he smiles. Now he's a dirty old man. So there you see, I've tried...