Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambodia is in the midst of the strangest phase of all -- and the only one that could be said to have benign intent. Over the past few months, under the banner of the U.N., the devastated country has been inundated by 20,000 men and women from all over the world, equipped with white cars, white trucks, white planes and white helicopters. They are charged with giving Cambodia something it has never had -- democracy -- along with something it has not known for 22 years -- peace...
...religious faith rather than undermining it. To pull off such a challenging assignment, we chose Robert Wright, a science writer whose column "The Information Age" for The Sciences magazine won the 1986 National Magazine Award for essays and criticism. Wright, now a senior editor at the New Republic, has benign memories of his first experience as a writer for TIME. "The editors were astonishingly tolerant of my stylistic idiosyncrasies," he says. "I had assumed I would be brutalized, but I wasn't." While calling himself "a fairly hard-core scientific materialist," Wright adds, "but I do like to think there...
...inevitably right that Walcott has assumed his rightful place in the literary pantheon. The people of the region cannot, as he suggests, wait for "a broader more benign consideration of the Caribbean." It is they who are responsible for its imaginative redefinition...
...growing number of Americans, the explorer is instead a symbol of genocide and slavery. And the holiday that once seemed a benign celebration of national pride has increasingly been labelled a day of shame...
...Girl." Edgar and Frances made quite a pair: handsome, smart, moneyed, decent. And they made quite a daughter, one at ease with her favors, slow to complain about being too lovely or too little loved. If aloof Edgar at times seemed closer to Charlie than to Candy, that constituted benign neglect, not child abuse. Candice's lucid autobiography, Knock Wood (1984), was no Daddy Dearest. It was a sharing of Kismet's gifts...