Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classroom, is destined to become a great artist. Poor Beulah! i A quiet, tiny child, self-immured, she seems to suffer from "an unremitting bewilderment," much like the young Cynthia Ozick, as she recalls herself. In the novel, Ozick has reserved some of her most luminous prose to endow this girl-child with tender life. Though bursting with irony and wit, The Cannibal Galaxy takes on a fearful seriousness when Ozick cites this fragment from the Talmud: "The world rests on the breath of the children in the schoolhouses...
...pleaded guilty to bid-rigging charges and faced a $2 million fine. Instead, at the company's suggestion, Urbom sought to do something more concrete about the bid-rigging crime. Missouri Valley will now pay a $325,000 fine, but will then ante up $1,475,000 to endow a chair in business ethics at the University of Nebraska...
Officials said that $1 million of that amount has been allotted to endow a new Takemi Professorship, which they expect to fill by September 1984 after initiating a world-wide search in the next few months...
Hiatt said that officials will also be looking to Japanese sources--most likely companies which have had contact with Takemi--to raise as much as $4 million in additional funds for the program. The fund will primarily endow the costs of the annual fellowships...
...characteristic of Berger to endow some of his most unappealing characters with vitality and strength. Rev is a paranoid crank but the only person in the book to take heroic action. To keep matters consistently bizarre, Berger describes the codger's funeral through the eyes of Junior, the teen-age lout: "As he watched the bronze box being lowered into the grave he could not help thinking of that little ditty that went: Your eyes fall in/ Your teeth fall out/ The worms crawl over/ Your nose and mouth. Dying was a lousy thing, and he intended to avoid...