Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More intriguing than the alterations, perhaps, is the man carrying them out. One of managing editor Jim Gaines' first steps after taking over TIME last February was hiring benign-looking Kurt Andersen, 38, editor of Spy magazine. If you haven't heard, Spy is the quintessence of witty and savage satire. It has not spared our proprietor, Time Warner, nor most other major American institutions. Have we unleashed a bomb thrower? Not to worry. Andersen, a man of very many talents, is a former writer in TIME's Nation section who wrote cover stores on Lee Iacocca, Jesse Helms...
...radio and TV garden show, tells his audiences to get rid of Kentucky bluegrass and seed their lawns with buffalo grass, a robust short-stemmed native needing only occasional mowing. Instead of finicky azaleas, Dromgoole recommends lantana, an attractive flowering shrub that, in central Texas at least, thrives on benign neglect...
...racial identity. We overloaded her toy box with black dolls. We carefully monitored the racial content of TV shows and videos, ruling out Song of the South and Dumbo, two classic Disney movies marred by demeaning black stereotypes. But we saw no harm in Pinocchio, which seemed as racially benign as Sesame Street or Barney, and a good deal more engaging. Yet now our daughter was saying she wanted to be white, to be like the puppet who becomes a real boy in the movie. How had she got that potentially soul-destroying idea and, even more important, what should...
Powell says that sexual orientation is not a "benign characteristic," whereas skin color is "benign." This is patently offensive. His bigoted views about sexuality are not more important than his remarkable record of achievement; the two issues are separate, at least...
...Daniel B. Kopans, associate professor of radiology at the Medical School, argues that the disadvantage to early screening is the cost of biopsies on benign growths...