Word: benignness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are some dubious democracies that are evolving toward more freedom; unlike being pregnant, it is possible to be a little bit democratic. Perhaps the textbook example of how a benign dictatorship can encourage democracy is Ayub Khan, who remains a military strongman but in seven years has moved Pakistan to the point where he himself ran scared for President in this year's election-and against a 71-year-old woman at that. Similarly, Thailand, now under semiautocratic rule, is preparing a constitution. The Shah of Iran has mobilized the intellectual resources of his nation for economic, social...
...deceptive because they are so common, and rarely indicate serious disorders. Even then, heart disease may be misdiagnosed as pneumonia. But a baby may be colicky and irritable, or have spells of rapid breathing, or be a feeding problem and fail to gain weight from a variety of benign causes. "It is not in the thinking of most doctors that a feeding problem has anything to do with heart disease," said Dr. McNamara. But in these thousands of cases every year, it should...
...thereat," says the Bible (Matthew 7:13). The latest to go in thereat is Producer-Director George Stevens (Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank), lugging along blueprints for this unwieldy magnum opus on the life of Christ, a work begun some five years and $20 million ago under benign auspices. "In creative association" with Poet Carl Sandburg, Stevens and Co-Author James Lee Barrett begat a script based loosely on Fulton Oursler's bestseller, on the Old and New Testament, and on other writings ancient and modern. His goal, Stevens proclaimed, was to create a definitive biography, "a Biblical...
Under the benign eyes of hundreds of Russian cops, the "students" spattered the embassy's yellow pastel facade with ink, smashed 202 windows. By way of contrast, when 400 American students later picketed the Soviet embassy in Washington in orderly fashion, police kept them 1½ blocks away from the building...
...span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way." Often, with inexplicable timing, Johnson allowed a benign smile to crease his face during passages not requiring a smile-an unsettling podium quirk that he resorts to, apparently, whenever he gets a notion that his audience may feel he looks too stern...