Word: benignity
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Busy with the chores of saving the world, he becomes a benign but remote member of his own household: "Not for the first time he felt the simplicity of the great issues, he knew exactly what should be done about South Africa and urban poverty and the bomb. It was the small events, those nearer home, that seemed to him forever shrouded in mystery...
...course. It can pass well-intentioned resolutions blandly calling for diplomacy and peace. Or it can simply do nothing. But a realistic assessment of the threat posed by the Sandinistas to the region, as well as to the U.S. itself, clearly exposes the risks of a policy of benign neglect...
...incident occurred amidst an atmosphere of joking and playfulness. Intentions on all sides were purely benign. The fire was an accident. And although it was potentially very dangerous, nobody was hurt and there was no substantial property damage. Yet in terms of my roommates, one instance of poor judgement has led to an entire year of punishment...
HARVARD'S SOUTH AFRICAN Internship Program was started in the same way as most other major projects at Harvard: Bok formed a committee. His instructions to the committee seemed benign. He instructed them to "find the programs that Black South Africans want." Ironically, during the first six months that the committee met, there is no evidence that they spoke with any Black South Africans, at Harvard or in South Africa...
...toward South Africa than the University's new South African Internship Program. The program is ill-conceived, poorly planned and, as it currently stands, will actually hurt Black South Africans--the ostensible beneficiaries of the new internships. It was conceived out of short-term political expediency and claims to benign results for malignant activities...