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Word: generous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than anyone else, seek happiness at the expense of reality? For that matter, what proof is there that Americans are especially selfish, or that those who preferred Reagan care not a whit for the poor, or are cruising for a war with the Soviets? Most citizens are as generous as they are competitive, and have mixed and turbulent feelings on everything from public education to the arms race. A vote for Reagan hardly settled these matters. One thing may be said of this election: individuals, more than voting blocs, did the electing, and individuals are very private concerns. Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan Country | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...recognize them as official student groups, it is hard to guess why officials have been so slow to take the morally consistent step of eliminating what amount to official subsidies for the clubs. We can only suspect that alumni of these clubs are among the University's more generous contributors and that administrators are loathe to antagonize such a group. We can also suspect that this "argument" is not morally consistent with anything Harvard might officially profess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's High Time To Cut the Ties With Final Clubs | 10/30/1984 | See Source »

Professor of Anthropology David Pilbeam said, "I met him at several conferences and he was very generous and helpful," adding that "he gave good advice and wasn't too harsh when we said stupid things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor of Paleontology, George Simpson, Dies at 82 | 10/9/1984 | See Source »

...people who come here tend to be sharp and vibrant in the beginning, with past successes suspended from their belts like scalps. Getting on, they want to clear out of the way before anybody perceives them as holding up traffic. So they pay a generous sum to enter and a healthy monthly stipend to stay; these spent funds preserve dignity, purchase perpetual care. In their day, they had attended their own parents until the end came, usually in an upstairs bedroom. Their children are aware of that and are slightly ashamed. For their part, the parents are enormously relieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: The View from 80 | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

What is so enervating is that the dander comes in large measure from inside your own mind, Enveloped in official lies, swathed in ... ironic smile, smothered in warm and generous friendliness that can burn cold at an order from above, you exist in the knowledge that at any moment of the state's choosing it can manipulate your surrounding environment gradually or dramatically to cause slight discomfort or excruciating pain. So you begin to take a defensive posture. You feel guilt over ordinary acts of courtesy goodwill toward Russians who want book they cannot get, for instance...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Beyond the Cliches | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

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