Word: benignancy
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...reason the government has allowed Renault such leeway is that it must face competition on the world market. Notes one Renault executive: "I doubt that a purely domestic company would have enjoyed the same benign neglect...
Moreover, this attitude of benign neglect was not limited to the four physicians involved, as the actions taken by Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) throughout the controversy strongly suggest. One BWH doctor observed last week that the hospital felt Hussain's trial "didn't have anything to do with his professional abilities." Furthermore, when the new controversy broke, hospital administrators not only remained silent on the issue, but ordered their staffs to avoid comment as well, hoping, as one staff member put it, that the whole thing would "blow over...
...wedding pyrotechnics remained entirely benign: the chain of bonfires lit all over the United Kingdom; the fireworks display, which also helped raise money for disabled people, who are one of Prince Charles' particular interests; and the subtle shimmers of graceful light from thousands of mother-of-pearl sequins on the bride's wedding gown. Designers David and Elizabeth Emanuel ultimately proved to be more adept at keeping close to the ground than Gildersleeve and Beevis. After putting the word around that they had prepared several back-up dresses in case of a security breach, they finally fessed...
...tells us that we have a right to live in the golden age of something. Why should that something be acid rain or rocket launchers? Why not-an Oreo-mint cone, please, with a scoop of cantaloupe, and jimmies-do our wistful dreaming about one of civilization's benign marvels, ice cream? -By John Skow...
Daniel Yankelovich, a student of the American psyche and chairman of the polling firm of Yankelovich, Skelly & White, now offers a more benign view. In New Rules: Searching for Self-Fulfillment in a World Turned Upside Down (Random House; $15.95), he suggests that this social upheaval may turn out to be as important as the cultural and political revolution that created the nation. Yankelovich recognizes that selfishness often masquerades as "self-actualization" and that "nothing has subverted self-fulfillment more thoroughly than self-indulgence." But borrowing from Alfred North Whitehead, he notes that "great ideas of ten enter reality...