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Which is not to say that the USSR is a benign, passive state cowering in the face of incessant threats. The impressive Soviet military industry the only part of the Soviet economy that works, essentially because of the emphasis placed upon it and the greater, market-type flexibility it is allowed belies this. But Goldman's analysis sheds light on a complex country that gets more out of its perceived national interest than through ideological fervor...
...perhaps, time to reflect on a comment by Lacey, one of the calmest and most benign of the journalists who write about the monarchy: "One must not reveal too much of the mystery because the royals have faults, dishonesties, nastinesses like anyone else. A lot of us happen to think that the illusions and idealization which surround this family is quite a healthy thing. Everyone needs vehicles for their social dreams...
...Shahn, enlivened only by a Matisse design for a large stained-glass window that gives the exhibition its feeble coda. Owing in part to the zeal of an association called the Friends of American Art in Religion, run by an art dealer named Lawrence Fleischman under the benign presidency of Terence Cardinal Cooke, masses of otherwise unsalable modern religious art have been decanted into the Vatican since the late '60s. The result, the Collezione d'Arte Religiosa Moderna, amounts to something between a pork barrel and a junk pile...
...when it parted ways with White, who it had endorsed four times: "Of the half-dozen candidates now running," declared a Globe editorial, "any of them would be preferable to Kevin White in 1983." Since then, not only has the criticism increased, but, strangely, it has spawned another, more benign sentiment: White shouldn't run because, hurt by the corruption issue, he has no chance of winning. The New York Times jumped into the act last month with three long articles portraying White's career as approaching a tragic end thanks to his machine Time magazine chimed in with...
...that Sissela Bok wants to rid the world of secrecy. Far from it. She argues that the practice itself is neutral, only good or bad according to the purposes it serves. Says she: "While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive." It is benign, for instance, when it helps human intimacy or the casting of ballots in democracies...