Word: benignancy
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Then it is Abzug's turn. A year or two ago, "Battling Bella" might have hollered some rib-cracking ripostes. Instead, she manages to look dainty in her white straw hat. Despite the heat and her bulk, she gives her most benign smile, a cultivated mannerism that accentuates the Oriental cast of her eyes. Sweetly, she says: "I disagree with Mr. Koch. I think that I am magnificent." The crowd exhales delight...
After the service. Cousin Hugh spoke harshly about the people running Plains Baptist. He described them as "anti-Carter, anti-black and full of hate." A woman who played piano for the Bottsford service was more benign. Said she: "I have no animosity toward anyone in the other church. I pray for them, and I pray...
...Benign Neglect. There is nothing overtly spectacular about his work. Nor has his career ever shown the kind of violent oscillation between styles and influences that invites a rhetoric of "breakthroughs." So the general attitude toward him has been one of benign neglect. But the current retrospective of 65 works by Cavallon at the Neuberger Museum at Purchase, N.Y.-amplified by two Manhattan exhibits of 25 early Cavallon paintings at the Patricia Learmonth Gallery and nine late ones at the Gruenebaum Gallery-shows how unjust that neglect has been. It brings into full view one of the most lucid, steadfast...
Israelis used to claim that their occupation of the West Bank was "the most benign in history." They would point out that West Bank Arabs were still allowed to carry Jordanian passports, that Muslim courts determined the law in most of the area's 500 cities and hamlets, and that municipal elections have been held in accordance with Jordanian law. All that is still true, but some Israelis now concede that their military .rule over the Palestinians is not only deeply resented but in many ways quite cruel. Last March the U.S. State Department cited Israel's administration...
Hofstadter's book rode a mainstream of the national experience. His words applied to the egghead-baiting and benign neglect of the '50s, but they were also prophetic for the drug culture of the '60s and the trivialized mysticism of the '70s. The Feminization of American Culture attempts to tap an underground current. It is that meandering flow of frustrations, veiled hostilities and confusions about power and innocence so common to the powerless...