Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blaming the U.S. for their di lemma. Said French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: "Europe is having to pay for the U.S. policy of growth and full employment." Schiller was even more direct: "The U.S. deficit of payments can no longer be tolerated with benign neglect...
...Some of Moynihan's other writings have been less well received. He was severely criticized last year after the publication of a memorandum to President, Nixon urging "benign neglect" of blacks, and his theory of matriarchal domination in black families has also me; with controversy...
...carve you into pieces!' and 'You'll never see another sunset!' Then, after ten or 15 minutes, they walk away and nobody gets hurt. This the Israelis don't realize." Rogers is hardly likely even to try to convince the Israelis of such a benign view of Arab bluster. Nonetheless, many Arabs last week welcomed Rogers' impending visit. Beirut's Al Anwar daily praised him as "one of the few Americans who have not succumbed to Zionist myopia...
...Cold Turkey clucks along, it does prove fitfully amusing. Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding make their film debut, delightfully impersonating a number of TV newsmen, including "Paul Hardly," and their CBS de resistance, "Walter Chronic." But these benign entertainers are essentially aural comedians, and their limitations underline the show's. Many films have been written specifically for TV. Cold Turkey seems the first to have been made for radio...
...received further criticism last year when the New York Times released a memorandum he had written to President Nixon, arguing for a policy of "benign neglect" toward blacks. The report urged Nixon to provide a welfare allowance for black families, but not to press for programs of retraining and job placement...