Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrat alike, Goldwater seems as radical as Norman Thomas. His fundamental axiom comes straight from 18th and 19th century political lore. From his contention that the government serves only as a guardian of the natural laws of competition follow all his domestic positions. But in foreign policy the benign policeman becomes a strong-armed archangel, a Michael brandishing his flaming sword around the globe, turning deaf ears on the cries of the stricken. Goldwater himself admits that his is not the spirit of the times: "You are not going to reverse all these trends immediately. If you did it would...
Willis meets the Negroes' complaints with what a federal judge last year labeled "benign indifference." Confronted with Negro demands for a loosening of the neighborhood-school pattern, Willis put forward a token transfer plan under which a total of only 32 children switched to other schools. Willis argues that he is not interested in maintaining segregation but only in preserving the concept of the neighborhood school. "I'm an educator, not a social worker," he says. "I don't go around counting Negroes, Indians, Hindus or any other group." When a delegation of N.A.A.C.P. leaders from...
...same old things dealt with far more directly, but the modern attitude toward various forms of sexual activity would jolt some of the most advanced thinkers of Stopesville. Masturbation, for instance, is no longer just a relatively harmless pastime -it is a blessing. Maxine Davis calls it "a benign measure for relief of tension under special circumstances." Clinical Psychologist Albert Ellis, in his widely read Sex Without Guilt, finds it "beneficial...
From the tone of last spring's election campaign, U.S. investors in Canada were led to believe that the Liberals' Lester Pearson would provide a milder, more benign business climate than Conservative John Diefenbaker. But last week, when Pearson's new government presented its first budget to Parliament, it became clear that while Diefenbaker only barked about "Canadianization" of industry, "Mike" Pearson was going to bite. Items...
...required to determine the exact cause of the hot spots and cold spots discovered by thermography. But the new procedure, says Dr. Gershon-Cohen, "holds much promise as another, ancillary approach to more accurate diagnosis of diseases of the breast, particularly carcinoma." The camera is already "valuable in differentiating benign from malignant lesions...