Word: benignness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, where schools are 40% Negro. Federal Judge Julius J. Hoffman recently dismissed a similar suit on technical grounds, but added: "Chicago cannot deny the existence of de facto segregation or excuse it on the pretext of a benign indifference." Chicago's $48,500-a-year (tops in the U.S.) School Superintendent Benjamin Willis long defended neighborhood schools. Last month Willis retreated to an imitation of New York City's two-year-old "open enrollment" plan, which this fall will allow 9,000 youngsters in heavily Negro and Puerto Rican schools to attend underused schools in white neighborhoods...
...Perhaps it was just a lullaby over the Laos settlement, or maybe the Reds were too hungry at home to take on external adventures. At any rate, in his closing speech to the negotiators of the Laos accord, Peking's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi, 61, sounded almost benign. After some standard bluster, the tough veteran of the civil war said: "We have, after all, broken a link in the chain of tension in Southeast Asia, and we should enlarge this breakthrough." Chen even found a reasonably hopeful and almost scrutable Old Chinese Proverb for the occasion: "The strength...
...King, George IV, wanted to banish all his father's Wests to the lumber room of Windsor Castle. He backed down only when another eminent West student intervened. The man was Sir Thomas Lawrence, who in that same year started his own loving portrait of the benign old master...
...mythical island of Shakespeare's Tempest, the forces of human bestiality, which raged so freely in his earlier tragedies, are held peacefully in check by the benign white magic of Prospero. Now, in Yoknapatawpha County, an equally mythical but heretofore relentlessly dark and bloody portion of Mississippi, a similarly pacific sea change has taken place. Evil still exists there, but it makes no serious headway. No one is raped. No one is lynched. No one is murdered...
...Alan Ladd's. As the girl in Giovanni's life, brunette beauty Michele Lee owes all her best lines to nature. Though only 19, she seems to have acquired the false vivacity and hackneyed mannerisms of generations of musicomedy ingenues. Swooping about the stage like a benign witch out of a child's storybook, fortyish ex-Ballerina Maria Karnilova, who plays a mate-hungry widow, is remarkably agile and refreshingly comic...