Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...redeemed for years to come. Contractors whose earnings reach $69,000 a year are taken over, or forced to accept joint participation by the government. Wiped out are the great landowners; farm holdings are now limited to 100 acres per family. This form of socialism is benign enough. It leaves most of the nation's commerce in private hands and does not affect the overwhelming number of small farmers, who own far less than 100 acres...
Others felt that a more productive student-faculty relationship would aid the situation. Smithies do not have close contact with their faculty except in primarily social circumstances; they are likely to regard any professors they know more as benign uncles than as teachers. "We go to see them if we get behind in their course," said one girl. "Of course, we don't go unless they're nice," added another...
...year-old Briton was the idol of Spain. The streets echoed with cries of "Y viva Velinton!," and beautiful women rushed forward to cover him with kisses. Had Goya been a less truthful artist, he might have tried to idealize the man into some sort of benign hero surrounded by the trappings of glory...
...future duke, who had little respect for artists, quickly found that there are artists who have little respect for dukes. In this austere portrait, the trappings of glory are absent. Even the order of the Golden Fleece is hidden beneath the cloak, and the sharp-featured face is neither benign nor particularly heroic. Goya painted exactly what he saw: a cold and contemptuous Englishman who regarded the exuberance of the Spaniards as rather poor taste...
CURLED like a benign bear behind his desk in Detroit's General Motors Bldg., Henry Guy Little, 60, the 212-lb. chairman of Campbell-Ewald Co., masterminds the biggest single advertising account in the world: $60 million a year from Chevrolet. It is hard to tell where Chevrolet leaves off and Campbell-Ewald begins. Only a floor separates their offices, and "Ted" Little is in on much of Chevrolet's market planning; it was he who named the Chevy II. Bent on an advertising career ever since his teen-age days in Los Angeles, Little bypassed college...