Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Queens Row. Unlike the relatively benign characters in the Warner Bros, pen epics, however, the cons in Riot are a pretty unattractive bunch. They talk dirty and act even worse: they make squealers run a gauntlet, brew up a batch of raisin jack and get high and try to seduce one another in a cell block called Queens Row. The character that Bruce called "the handsome but mixed-up prison doctor, H. B. Warner," has been replaced by a sissified head-shrinker whom the men lovingly refer to as "that faggot psychologist." The warden, usually portrayed as tough but sympathetic...
...reason to believe that Harvard's record as a landlord is any worse than that of others, and some reason to believe it may be better. The owners and managers of real estate are rarely loved by their tenants, not are they in a business that encurages the most benign and altruistic practices. The Committee is of the opinion, however, that average treatment is not good enough, especially in regard to tenants who are older or burdened with families. We are, and we are judged to be, an institution devoted to humanistic values, and thus accountable to higher standards...
...Benign Grads...
...past, these benign graduates have usually limited their athletic support to an endearing "Good Luck" telegram to the coach. Now the telegrams are being replaced by intricately diagramed screen plays which look great on paper and "can't miss...
...Moscow is greatest in Western Europe, where Communist parties are strongest. Since these parties seek to gain power by votes, and not by revolution, a liberalizing Czechoslovakia was an excellent advertisement for the image of Communism that they wished to project. Now that the Soviets have shattered that benign image, these parties are understandably anxious to dissociate themselves from this aspect of Moscow's policy. Italian Communist Chief Luigi Longo. whose party is Europe's largest, flatly declared that the Communist movement no longer has "centralized direction." In his new action program, Longo proposed an apertura a destra...