Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Living in Dunster House for so many years hasmade Kletzsch a well-known character there, wheresome, who don't really know him, see him as a madhermit, perhaps a benign Quasimodo...
...former Harvard professor with a knack for stirring up controversy. As Assistant Secretary in Lyndon Johnson's Labor Department, he kicked up a fuss by issuing a hotly disputed report on female- headed black families. Five years later, as Richard Nixon's adviser on domestic policy, he urged "benign neglect" on racial issues, meaning that the Administration should let racial controversy cool before launching new civil rights initiatives. In the case of Social Security, Moynihan admits that he was out to attract notice through the political equivalent of hitting Congress over the head with a two-by-four. Says...
...know what people thought went on there," said Jonathan H. Ebel '91, referring to the November ROTC session. "It was very benign...