Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bird . . . It's a Plane . . . It's SUPERMAN is an amiable mediocrity of a musical, capable only of inspiring benign indifference...
...Beirut, police stand blithely by while taxis careen up one-way streets the wrong way, honking every time they pass a sign reading "Klaxon Interdit." Smuggling of everything from hashish to hand grenades proceeds under the benign eye of the customs inspector, and buying a judge's opinion is sometimes as easy as buying a crate of Lebanese apples. When mild, soft-spoken Charles Helou, 52, was elected President of Lebanon by its Parliament in 1964, everyone expected him merely to preside over this happy chaos, because, as one Beirut parliamentarian puts it, "Corruption is the Lebanese...
...goes without saying that the most enriched people of all are the audiences. In the brief decade or so when the new Elizabethans have come of age, their benign assault on the public sensibilities in Britain has deepened men's insights as well as their enjoyment. Theater, British style, is no longer a let's pretend. It is for real...
Voluntary? Not quite, countered Principal Oshinsky. The teachers taught those five-year-olds to say those prayers, which means, he said, official coercion, however benign. When the case reached the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, it avoided the voluntary question by ruling simply that the First Amendment does not compel a state to let citizens pray in a state-owned facility whenever they wish to do so. Judge Henry J. Friendly told PRAY: "The plaintiffs must content themselves with having their children say these prayers before 9 a.m. and after...
...high of 160). A total of 213 cases was reported; of those, only six were of the "benign tertian" or vivax type. All other cases were caused by the far more virulent parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, which sets off violent fevers and may make a fatal attack on the brain, spleen or other organs...