Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century drawing room filled with pale sunlight. They are members of the National Association of Tenants' Organizations, a volunteer group, and have been invited by Robinson for a tour and tea. After a few minutes, a tall, handsome woman, dressed in a bright suit that could be described as benign dress for success, enters and, without fanfare, begins her talk...
...priests, religious or laity which run contrary to the public faith of the church will not be tolerated in liturgy or instruction on Catholic doctrine." She recognizes that such a crackdown would cause "extraordinary public fragmentation of the Catholic community." However, the U.S. hierarchy's current policy of benign inaction, she contends, "benefits only those who have already rejected the public faith of the church and the authority of the bishops...
...that researchers have developed a relatively benign way to stay hooked on nicotine, will patches become the next big addiction? So far, most researchers see little chance of wide-scale patch abuse, despite reports of patients sneaking extra patches or pressuring physicians to extend treatment beyond the recommended six to 12 weeks. But really, who cares? Nicotine alone is not a killer in modest doses. It mixes just fine with driving, and best of all, co-workers and spouses need not fret about secondary smoke. Until the battle against bad habits is finally won, nicotine patches might just...
Grey calls those who treat Wood with benign contempt "jackals of bourgeois sensibility." And he's right. As critic Jim Morton notes, "If there is a 'worst film ever made,' it is one that is boring -- a sin Ed Wood Jr. is rarely guilty of." But there is a more melancholy irony to be found in Grey's interviews with the director's colleagues. Unlike most trashmeisters, Wood had radical messages for his audience: about sexual tolerance (Glen or Glenda), nuclear madness (Plan 9), parental smugness (The Sinister Urge). He was as dedicated to filmmaking as Welles or Kurosawa...
...guess I might be interested in something political in 25 years--if I've achieved something somewhere else," says Adam D. Taxin '93, former co-chair of the Undergraduate Council's academics committee. "President for life might be good Or maybe benign dictator or philosopherking...