Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prominent example of this generous and benign attitude is Maurice Stans, 73, the chief money raiser for Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. Stans had pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor counts during the post-Watergate investigations of political fund abuses. Since Reagan assumed office, Stans has been quietly lobbying among his friends on Capitol Hill and in the Administration for some kind of symbolic rehabilitation. It took months for Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver to find an appropriately obscure post for Stans, but find one he eventually did. In early December Stans was named to the board...
...apartment building is ailing as well. Once an elegant address on Manhattan's Upper West Side, it is now suffering from the not-so-benign neglect of the landlord. Margaret Mary's chief joy and solace is playing the piano, mostly Strauss and Chopin waltzes in tandem with a violin-playing "maiden lady" of about 50 named Cara Varnum (Dorothy Lou-don). Both actresses "fake" their instruments stylishly...
What did happen? The answer lies partly in the region's geography and partly in its history. The area is a natural Ellis Island for all those coming, for whatever reason, from the Caribbean and points south. The region's benign climate and studied informality have long made it prime destination for Americans on the make, on the lam or on a pension. With it hundreds of miles of coves and inlets, the area is also an ideal port of entry for boat laden with
Though slowed by diabetes, he is a cherubic figure, a twinkly-eyed grandfatherly sort, full of benign anecdotes about his past (and a convenient lack of memory for past frictions). The old attack is still there. Indeed, the cunning professional is more than ever capable of playing games with the audience, using his softened image for deceptive purposes. Until he whispers his last devastating line in Ragtime, the audience is likely to think of Police Commissioner Rheinlander Waldo as an agreeable authority figure, when he is actually the picture's symbol of evil genius...
...When We Go,") personal degeneracy ("SMUT" and "The Masochism Tango") and human ineptitude in all its inglorious splendor. At the root of all Lehrer humor seemed to be the assumption that things could get better if only people stopped screwing up. He looked not for malevolence but rather for benign stupidity--not for evil but for incompetence...