Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important lesson to be taken from the entire debate. Gulf happens to be allied with a colonial dictatorship in its quest for profits. Other corporations are allied with comparable institutions, churning out medical supplies and napalm with the equanimity of good free marketeers. Hideous commodities and corporations converge with benign ones in a dense thicket...
...world of the presidency, Nixon believes that the people can pretty much run themselves if left alone. A spirit of laissez-faire?to the point of "benign neglect"?suffuses his thinking. Thus a major purpose of Washington is to guard against too much governmental encroachment. It is ironic that under Nixon, the Government has imposed economic controls and grown bigger than ever. But he believes that he has stirred more initiative in the courthouses and state capitols...
When his mood is benign, Gerald Jay Goldberg regards the world through skewed lenses and produces wonders: "Martin Fogle was growing up, as in the background his aging parents disappeared into their shoes." Slightly nutty, but marvelously accurate; this is exactly what the aging parents of a 15-year-old body builder would do. A bit further on in the same story, the reader learns of Martin's father that "Once an idea occurred to him, he would hold on to it like an umbrella in a high wind." Not so nutty, but definitely skewed, a vision...
...much lower level, the benign image of the Olympic Games (see SPORT) was also bruised by the horror and bloodshed amid splendid surroundings. The morning after the murders, an audience of 80,000 filed into the Olympic Stadium for a hastily arranged memorial service. The surviving members of the Israeli team, heavily guarded, sat with the other athletes in the center of the field. The stand was draped in black, and for the first time in Olympic history the flags of 122 competing nations and the Olympic flag flew at half-staff. Munich's Philharmonic orchestra played...
...Chips. Never mind the subversive rot that Waugh, Orwell and Cyril Connolly wrote about the English public school. Delderfield's Bamfylde is a cozy, character-building place. Pranks are played, faculty rivalries worked out, young minds awakened, while over it all Delderfield nods with the benign and sometimes moist gaze of an Old Boy. There seems to be a streak of self-identification in the author's portrait of his hero, David Powlett-Jones. An erstwhile young reformer, Powlett-Jones endures two marriages, a love affair, assorted births and deaths, and the splutterings of the board of governors...