Word: benignity
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...peasant population? He is warned to reform, and if no improvement is noted he is shot. Is a local official corrupt? He too is killed. All the while, the guerrillas distribute food and help with the farming. For some, this image of the N.P.A. as a band of benign vigilantes takes hold. But for many others, it quickly tarnishes. Some villagers balk because the advance team has already pushed on to the next villages, leaving in its wake a "shadow government" that coerces support and suppresses criticism. Others are shocked when the guerrillas destroy businesses belonging to people who have...
Insider trading is about the only aspect of the merger marathon that bothers the Reagan Justice Department. Just a decade ago, a proposed joining of two leviathans like GE and RCA would have drawn an immediate challenge. But under the benign gaze of the Reagan White House, bigger most often means better. Charles Rule, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the antitrust division, notes that recent years have brought "a sea change in public opinion regarding the costs and benefits of regulation," including antitrust laws. Says Rule: "After years of experience with the Great Society, we discovered that more Government doesn...
...father (Baritone Sanford Sylvan) in a stew. His spirit reincarnated as a bird, the boy takes his revenge by dropping a millstone on the stepmother and is joyfully restored to his father and half sister. Watching over all is the juniper tree, in which dwells the benign spirit of the boy's real mother...
Individual students can make a difference. The clubs can no longer be accepted as benign vestiges of Harvard's aristocratic past. Students should express dismay when they find out that a friend is considering joining a club. Women should stop accepting the status quo and should refuse to enter clubs which by their very existence encourage demeaning and sexist attitudes. Present members should resign from the clubs because of the clubs' immoral foundations...
...good deal of Return hinges on the question of identity. Day is stifled and trapped by the spirit of Daniel Montross, a spirit that is sometimes benign and amusing, but more often stridently demanding, driving to fulfill its purpose to return to life. Understandably, Diana is unable to separate the present incarnation from the past life. Although she is attracted to Day, a stronger, more compelling attraction to the voice of her grandfather constantly interferes. This merging of identity, then, is subtly and uncomfortably incestuous...