Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was Sam Rayburn's accomplishment, and not even the memory of the sharp, benign figure who presided at party conventions will be missed so much. His successor will most likely be John McCormack, who will soon experience the overwhelming loneliness of the speaker, who must, often sympathizing neither with the President nor with his chamber, act to reconcile them both. Rayburn sat in that isolated chair for 18 years, trying at once to legislate and to preserve his integrity and humanity; and he was successful...
Heller's Yossarian might have been the creature of a benign Kafka-engagingly bedeviled, drolly pathetic. By feigning madness in ways that only a madman could invent (standing naked in formation to receive a Distinguished Flying Cross, marching backward in parades), Yossarian proclaims his withdrawal from the whole business of the war itself...
Died. Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 73-benign. German-bred Harvard classicist whose monumental studies of Aristotle and the ideals of ancient Greek culture themselves became classics: of injuries suffered in a fall: in Boston...
...rebel Algerian F.L.N. last week abruptly turned left. After three years under the relatively benign leadership of Premier Ferhat Abbas, 61, an ex-druggist who speaks better French than Arabic and has a middle-class habit of falling asleep after a good dinner, control shifted to a clutch of hard-eyed terrorists who had survived street battles and mountain skir mishes in the seven-year war against the French...
...This benign philosophy does not prevent Seaton from being a tough and savvy bargainer. "That amiability of his," la ments Leonard Woodcock, "doesn't lead him to give away anything at the bargaining table." Because he helped pioneer G.M.'s labor relations in the '30s without benefit of a degree in law or psychology, Seaton likes to call himself a "barnyard bargainer." But he is a pretty slick country boy. A regular reader of dozens of union publications, he has an intimate understanding of the political realities of the labor movement, on occasion has stayed...