Word: benignity
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...encourage students, faculty, staff and tenants to continue to press Harvard to make those changes which would truly transform this University into one benign, involved and responsive to the needs and welfare of this city. Sean T. Buffington...
...window blinds, pale elegant things haunted by Jasper Johns. It proceeds through a prolix series of paintings from the '60s that depict the corner of an imaginary "ideal" and utterly banal room with no furniture in it, done in very close-valued colors that turn the image into a benign parody of Ad Reinhardt's black paintings. Odd little signs -- a blurt of pigment here, a "Have a Nice Day" face there -- float in front of the room. You get the impression that Moskowitz, who has been a Zen student most of his adult life, is repeating a sort...
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...