Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added that he plans to introduce a resolution in the Cambridge City Council tonight asking Harvard to bestow an honorary degree on Parks...
...MacArthur awards are five-year stipends that range from $24,000 to $60,000 annually, depending on age (the older the winners, the larger their tax-free gifts). Fellows also get an additional $15,000 to bestow on their institutions...
...clearly flying to emulate. Typical of his rhetoric are such hollow lines is. We have the experience, the means and the power to make the right choice. We cannot escape the consequences of making the wrong one," Or. "The steps outlined in this section are designed to help us bestow that sense of purpose and national will" Or. "A nation whose children go to bed at night with nuclear nightmares is not a secure nation." "Without this purpose, we will fail. With this purpose, a generation can fashion its place in history. In such purpose, there is hope...
...harder to attract attention, especially in the American market. The "art houses" of the 1960s, where a United Nations of cinema once reigned, now play host to mainstream movies from the suburbs of Los Angeles. Critics' groups, which had regularly knighted Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, now bestow their awards on Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack. With many American critics, moviemakers and moviegoers on a slumming spree, the intellectual cachet of European films has been broken. But there is still cinematic ingenuity to be found outside the U.S., and sometimes even in U.S. movie theaters. Three encouraging examples...
Nothing wrong with that, up to a point, and nothing wrong with the hero worship of fashion designers. They are every bit as deserving of celebrity as the celebrities they dress. One begins to wonder only when such fashion kings as Pierre Cardin, Givenchy, Bill Blass and Ralph Lauren bestow the knighthood of their labels on wines, automobiles, chocolates or home fashions. It merely makes these things fashionable, which is not enough. Caveat emptor. Enjoy the presumed prestige, but do not confuse high-priced celebrity labels with design...