Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARVARD HAS NEVER been known as a place that gives much institutional support to the creative arts, and 414 student musicians signed a petition last week objecting to some of the less benign aspects of the University's neglect. The specific charges in the petition are undeniable: that there is a serious shortage of decent pianos, rehearsal space and sheet music, and that a single course in musical performance--with enrollment limited to less than thirty--hardly begins to fill the needs of Harvard's instrumentalists...
...businessmen themselves, by the way, have done a terrible job of creating a benign image for themselves; they talk just the way Ford expects them to. The Chase Manhattan Bank called for federal funds for the city in September, creating in its argument an impersonal clockwork world where there will be "sufficient controls," "checkpoints," "mechanisms in action...
...haired figure, married to his longtime research assistant, Veronica Boulter (his 33-year first marriage ended in divorce in 1946), Toynbee frequently visited U.S. universities and once commented that the things he liked best about the U.S. were Bing Crosby and peanut butter. Not all his views were so benign. When he was 80, he declared in the autobiographical Experiences that the U.S. (in Viet Nam) and Israel (in Palestine) were partners in colonialism. As recently as last year, he wrote in the Observer that fuel shortages might well lead to authoritarian governments in the West, but he added hopefully...
...manufacturers. If their record is spotty, it is at least partially due to the difficulty of setting up foolproof test procedures. The tests depend largely on interpreting how results in laboratory animals will apply to man, and they usually fail to take into account synergistic effects (a seemingly benign substance, combined with other compounds in the environment, sometimes becomes hazardous). The chemical industry is moving to correct the situation. Eleven of the biggest companies have pledged $12 million to start a Chemical Institute of Toxicology to work out better test procedures...
...Irish family in the middle of brahmin-land as having to be biting and aggressive would be an admission by one of America's largest corporations that this is indeed a closed society with a rigid class structure. It is much more politic for CBS to push forward the benign version of the American dream now found in Beacon Hill. It makes for a pretty show, an optimistic show, one that shows off little but the talents of the costume designer...