Word: benignancy
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...stuff as dreams are made on-fantastic, capricious, inconsecutive, at times nightmarish. Shakespeare's brain begot such villains and monsters as Iachimo in Cymbeline, Caliban in The Tempest, Leontes in The Winter's Tale. But terror and tragedy took shape only to melt away at last in benign late-afternoon sunlight...
...Benign, balding "Prexy" MacCracken approaches the core curriculum with well-considered irreverence. "Who wants to eat the core?" he asked. "There is too much diversity in this world for students of 18 to be forced on a single diet. The bill of fare is too rich for that. ["If a woman is old enough to marry," MacCracken told an alumnae meeting, "she is old enough to decide what to study."] I am for diversity. I like to meet people who know nothing about my subject.* I can learn from them and I can tell them something. It makes conversation...
...taken Rice four years to get his successor. The trustees went out to find a scientist with the right amount of "character, reputation, experience, ability, personality and background." At last they found him: benign, highbrowed Physicist William Vermillion Houston, 46, who last year succeeded famed Robert Andrews Millikan as chairman of the California Institute of Technology's division of physics, mathematics and electrical engineering...
...selections: small, half-paralyzed Archbishop Jules-Géraud Saliege of Toulouse, who during France's occupation openly attacked German treatment of Jews and conscription of Frenchmen; massive, blue-blooded Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Munster, whose anti-Nazi sermons and pastorals nearly cost him his life; benign, bald Bishop Konrad von Preysing of Berlin, who, when the Nazis came into power, said publicly: "We have fallen into the hands of criminals and fools." Typical Spanish appointment: small, bespectacled Archbishop Enrique Pla y Deniel of Toledo, who was the first prelate appointed in Spain after Franco signed...
...when he collaborated with its inventor, Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow scholar at the University of Cambridge, on a tortuous book on semantics, called The Meaning of Meaning. Since then he has spent a good deal of time globe-trotting as Basic's chief agitator, wearing the benign smile of a zealot who is content with his life's work. When war broke out, he was at Harvard on a Rockefeller grant as a roving researcher on the problems of the English language. A year ago he was made a professor, but he still spends more time working...