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...thing that distinguishes the fund that runs the place is its devotion not only to care but to something approaching benison. You can be rich or you can be broke, and they will take you in as long as you have spent the past 20 years in the business, from acting to locking the gate, and exceptions are made to that. Viola Dana is here (the classic silent Blue Jeans), and the industry forgot about her when movies began to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: A Place for Curtain Calls | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...Eleanor in the White House had become a benison. She gave hope to the desperate and defeated, seeking out the underdog and the eccentric . . . It was as if she engaged in a dialogue that was always invested with love. . . Relationships enabled her to remain human and to plumb depths of feeling from which she had long been absent. She was grateful and did not care what the papers wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daring Rectitude | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...breadth of untroubled forehead, and the result, by some trick of geometry, is a face whose expressions are astonishingly warm and open. Her great length of shank and neck give a powerful impression of health and muscular strength, and there is a sense of physical well-being conferring a benison on her. Some other beauties suggest the inviting possibilities of evil. Tiegs' clear and uncomplicated healthiness suggests that there is no such thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American Model | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...written. "The silent beauty of a flower surpasses them all. Among beautiful women there are said to be silent beautiful women, but none can compare with the silent flower." Sofu (the name means Blue Wind) is revered for such views in a land where a beautiful blossom is a benison. Round, gnome-like Teshigahara, 77, is Japan's most innovative and successful master of the ancient art of ikebana, which bears about the same relationship to flower arranging as usually practiced in the West as Rachmaninoff to country rock. Within that art, Sofu is commonly referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Japan's Picasso of the Flowers | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...zeal to add on fresh ones." Amin then ticked off some of the "problems": racial strife in the U.S., Viet Nam, the ITT fiasco in Chile, and, of course, Watergate: "At this moment you are uncomfortably sandwiched in that unfortunate affair." Big Daddy signed off with a heartfelt benison from one hard-pressed statesman to another: "I ask almighty God to help you solve your problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy's Breakfast | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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