Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genuine Texas intellectual with "a benign poker face," Galveston-born Chancellor Ransom, 52, was educated at Tennessee's University of the South and at Yale, began teaching English at Texas in 1935, turned to administration in 1951. Among other achievements, Bibliophile Ransom has made the university one of the country's richest repositories of rare manuscripts. Since 1957 Texas has picked up more than 100 private libraries and collections, including original manuscripts by famed modern authors, from James Joyce to Ernest Hemingway, from e. e. cummings to A. A. Milne...
Friends & Aliens. In plant, Friendship University consists of two former military schools on opposite sides of Moscow. Academically, it is a five-year diet of heavily technological courses (including a first year of Russian for six hours a day). Politically, it is supposedly neuter: a benign effort to train "children of the workers" in Asia, Africa, Latin America. The lure is free transportation, free room and books, a monthly stipend of $90 (which is twice as much as Russian students get) and a $300 clothing allowance for those Moscow frosts. The Russians say 43,000 people applied this year...
Among the Romans, where power was frequently the only truth, superficial appearance was reality. Christianity restored the art of transcendent hidden meanings. With impressive erudition, Malraux traces the sacerdotal role of cathedral, mosaic and icon and the evolution of Christian art from the austere, stylized Byzantine Pantocrators to the benign, handsome "Beau Dieu" in the central portal of Amiens Cathedral. Despite the growing intrusion of realistic detail, Giotto, as late as the 14th century, "did not copy the sky men see, but transmuted it into a sky charged with Christ's presence." But a century later Botticelli plunged into...
...beautifully simple Candid Camera needed such contrivance and coyness like a hole in the lens, and when Funt screens his reliable, inspired shots of women trying on hats or children slurping ice cream, the show still is almost as delightful as Godfrey's guffaws would suggest. So far. benign Big Brother Funt has not run out of situations to exploit, although only 10% of his film footage ever proves usable. Most of it is too dull, and much too embarrassing to be shown. "We get a large number of suggestions." says he, "that reveal a kind of frightening sadism...
Died. His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin Harub, G.C.B.. G.C.M.G., G.B.E., the Sultan of Zanzibar, 81, who had reigned over Britain's East African island protectorate since 1911; of a heart attack; in his royal palace. One of the most benign of small-time despots, the British-admiring Sultan was highly regarded by the quarter-million inhabitants of his spice isle, most of them Moslem blacks known as "God's Poor," the rest chiefly higher-class Arabs descended from conquerors of yore...