Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While such rare performance by Euro-American students would be viewed as highly laudable, it has provoked poorly concealed negative reactions toward Asian-Americans on the part of some. These reactions have prompted an increasing number of television commentaries, and newspaper and magazine articles which are ostensibly benign cultural profiles but in reality are most often subtle fear-tactics designed to focus the attention of the white majority on this issue and provoke counter-measures. The media marionettes and their manipulators most often emphasize the high number of Asian-Americans entering the prestigious colleges, their projected "disproportionate representation" in university...
...exclude from responsibility those persons who weren't directly involved or don't descend from persons who were involved in slavery and racial segregation, shouldn't they also be excluded from the more benign developments in which they weren't involved? I wonder if they would like to be excluded from the pure food laws, the child labor laws, the public schools, collective bargaining. Social Security, etc.? David L. Evans Evans is Harvard's Senior Admissions Officer...
...airspace over Central America was congested with diplomatic traffic last week, all of it aimed at finding peaceful solutions to the area's violent conflicts. No fewer than ten nations, including the U.S., sent envoys into action. The most visible outcome of the effort was a benign recognition that the Reagan Administration and its most important Latin neighbor, Mexico, were on separate, although slightly more compatible paths as they tried to deal with a serious common crisis...
That "the approach of the Jews towards the Palestinians has been genocidal from the very beginning..." is an absolute lie. On the contrary, the PLO Covenant calls for the destruction of Israel (That is their goal. Their objectives are thus not as benign as the Crimson quotes would indicate, which further shows the need for some balancing remarks), and in fact all Palestinians or PLO members who have dared to speak out for peace with Israel have been murdered, most recently Issam Sartawi...
...will even admit that their real goal, now that arms talks are under way in Geneva, is not so much a freeze as it is keeping pressure on an Administration that seems reluctant to give any ground at the negotiating table. In that sense, the freeze campaign may be benign, even laudable, but only so long as it never gets what it says it wants...