Word: benignity
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...complaining. I have enough historic sensibility to understand that difficulty observing Jewish holidays and feelings of discomfort about the abundance of Christian symbolism during the Christmas season are both among the more benign results of living as a minority. However, after missing seven days of classes during the first three weeks of this semester because of the series of Biblical Jewish holidays, I do not feel welcomed and included when Harvard incorporates the minor holiday of Hanukkah into the Christmas season...
...presidential hagiography. It is a portrait of a man of few obvious personal faults, and his political ones often seem irrelevant. Morris’ biography might have pointed out more prominently the ambiguous legacy of Roosevelt’s colonialism, or that it was not Roosevelt but his obesely benign successor William Howard Taft who had the most success busting trusts and regulating the robber barons. And he offers less psychologizing in this volume than in his account of Roosevelt’s early years; there is little talk, for instance, of Roosevelt’s father, whom he adored...
...presidential hagiography. It is a portrait of a man of few obvious personal faults, and his political ones often seem irrelevant. Morris’ biography might have pointed out more prominently the ambiguous legacy of Roosevelt’s colonialism, or that it was not Roosevelt but his obesely benign successor William Howard Taft who had the most success busting trusts and regulating the robber barons. And he offers less psychologizing in this volume than in his account of Roosevelt’s early years; there is little talk, for instance, of Roosevelt’s father, whom he adored...
...Stein Club hasn’t always had such a benign nature...
...should realize in this turmoil, however, that Halloween has never really been about violence. Our Americanized concept of the holiday has, in fact always involved the harmless pursuit of fun for kids and college students alike. No feelings of sadness or guilt can change the inherently benign nature of the holiday, and our celebrations must carry on as usual...