Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horse-god he creates, worships and fastens his sexual energies to. This possession is not altogether a bad thing; the boy is so absorbed in his world that he reaches a level of emotional intensity unavailable to more ordinary men and women. So long as the psychosis remains benign, it is not discovered and poses no problem for anyone; one night, though, the boy, Alan Strang, blinds six of the horses he has been working with at a stable in rural England. The local magistrate, a woman of uncommon compassion but complacent confidence in official definitions of sanity, places...
...Benign neglect's no good for starved Bengalis...
...strong system of checks and balances, on the reason, clarity and ethics he believed intellectuals like himself could bring to government. From the beginning, Lippmann distrusted an uneducated public for what he considered its lack of enlightenment, and maintained that how a country was governed--by popular assembly or benign bureaucracy--was less important than what its government did. As an intelligent man, Lippmann naturally recognized that how governments worked and who ran them often had an effect on what they did. But his stress was generally on the smoothness and efficiency with which they did things--that was much...
...palace revolutions go, it was smoothly managed and seemingly benign. Last week, at an unlikely point in midseason, the Metropolitan Opera named a new operating chief and assigned him to lead the company out of a deepening financial crisis. He is Anthony A. Bliss, 61, a Wall Street lawyer, member of the Met board for 25 years and president from 1956 to 1967. In the new post of executive director, he becomes the immediate boss of General Manager Schuyler G. Chapin...
...Interior Rogers C.B. Morton decrying the growing number of lay-offs resulting from the "miners' strike"--indicating, apparently, that no one has lost his job due to the coal operators' recalcitrance--the initial response from Washington officials was, as The New York Times editorialist A.H. Raskin put it, "benign neglect." Members of the Executive Branch, including labor economist John T. Dunlop, coordinator of Ford's advisory commission on labor and management, stayed clear of the fracas...