Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the estate received $84,000. But Mrs. Paul Mellon wanted those very Rothkos so ardently, Lloyd testified, that Marlborough bought them back from Galleria Bernini for a whopping $420,000 and then resold them to her for that amount. "Since the price was so high," Lloyd said with benign altruism, "I didn't want to profit from it." Yet if the sale to Mrs. Mellon had been direct, the estate would have received...
...that these people are out to get Radcliffe, but sometimes it's benign neglect. I remember one meeting where some of the people didn't know what the tuition for Radcliffe students was--they thought it was thought it was different from the tuition Harvard students have to pay. I told them it was the same. It's important to have somebody there at these meetings to highlight these questions...
...music suggests that the real Heinrich lies somewhere between Beethoven and oblivion. He was a Bohemian immigrant who, among other things, wrote some grandiose orchestral works and helped found the New York Philharmonic Society in 1842. The piano and vocal pieces offered here will strike some listeners as benign imitations of Haydn and early Beethoven. Yet compared with the efforts of other American composers at the time, they are notable in their harmonic freedom, improvisatory style and whimsical subject matter. Epitaph on Joan Duff, for example, is the sweet-and-sour tale of a woman who took a pinch...
...nearly 40 years Lennie Lyons was Broadway's most cheerful, most benign columnist. He attended openings good and bad. He chatted easily with a cast of public people that included royalty and burlesque comics. Once given the choice between Lyons' 14-hour-a-day schedule or six months in jail, a group of wags-including Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott-unanimously chose the clink...
...proposal concluded on a note of hope: "We have a situation where Harvard can use their great resources of power and influence to solve rather than to avoid, to build rather than destroy, to be benign rather than haughty, and to be a friend rather than a predator. Harvard has the opportunity to set a precedent not only to other universities but to all men who have given up compassion for material security, respect for self-aggrandizement...