Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fish's second option is to do as the Princetonians do and start recruiting. Unfortunately, the word "recruit," like the word "politics," carries the stench of corruption and illegality no matter what the context. But, in its most benign form, all it really involves is telling the squash-playing applicant "We really want you to come here, because you'll fit right into the program..." That kind of prodding doesn't mean Hemenway will be populated by intellectual zombies majoring in animal husbandry, but only that the top high school players might decide to play for the Crimson rather than...
...forthcoming book offers some slightly more definite advice-or at least postulation. Although he is not studying happiness as such, the anthropologist argues that humankind does not have to go looking far for its basic source of wellbeing: it is built right into the human body. Says he: "Our benign sense of the future could have been bred into us and other complex animals out of the need to survive." Tiger speculates that man pushes ever onward, inextinguishably optimistic in the face of adversity, because of his biochemistry. The key to mankind's optimism, he argues, lies in those...
Henry Fonda, as a relatively benign Southern aristocrat, breaks down and calls his son (Richard Thomas) a nigger when the boy marries a black (Fay Hauser). Paul Winfield, as a black college president, puts on a humiliating minstrel act to raise money from a socialite philanthropist (Dina Merrill). Ossie Davis and Brock Pe ters turn up as, respectively, a Pull man porter and a sharecropper, who risk their jobs to fight for economic equality. In his first TV performance, Marlon Brando appears in the final episode as American Nazi Party Leader George Lincoln Rockwell...
...unique situation of the Afro-American Studies Department warrants the special attention of the entire Harvard community. I have before witnessed similar situations where benign neglect has proven fatal to the entity in question...
...proved unable to break post-Viet Nam, post-Watergate mood of bitterness and distrust that, in part, brought him to office. He is treated with less respect by the public, the Congress and the press than would be expected of a man of his record and rather benign personality. All this has produced a sense of regret in the President himself. "The duty of our generation of Americans," he noted last week, "is to renew our nation's faith-not focused just against foreign threats, but against the threat of selfishness, cynicism and apathy...