Word: generous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have Americans seemed so generous toward Reagan? Pundits resort to a kind of mystical non-analysis: some unprecedented "Teflon factor," they say, has permitted him to escape public blame; no failure sticks. Walter Mondale's hope is that before Americans step into the polling booths, they will come to see that the Teflon is just a thin coating, that the President beneath is oblivious and misguided. "Mondale and Ferraro are putting up warning signs," notes a White House strategist. "They are saying the next four years will be dangerous if Reagan is reelected. We will have to respond to that...
...generous fee, the Tarrants--a pair of 19th-century Cantabrigians with looks and behavior that seem more rodent-like than human-hand Verena's education, upbringing, and welfare over to Olive. She spirits the girl away to Beacon Hill, and away from all the distractions that could affect an impressionable young woman of that age. Olive's fear for Verena's "impurity" is a fear of everything outside the narrow Suffragist circle of dedicated ladies and genteel performs...
Ramirez, who has lived in Princeton since 1975, drew support from 75 local residents who offered to be character witnesses for him. "It's hard to imagine he would do anything illegal. He was always so visible and ostentatiously generous," said one citizen. "He's been the talk of the town...
...must then be presented to the British Parliament and to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Peking. Although Thatcher can expect to receive overwhelming support in the House of Commons, Deng may have to persuade hard-liners that he is not being extravagantly generous toward the citadel of laissez-faire capitalism. If all goes well, Thatcher and Zhao could sign the final treaty before the end of the year, and poker faces may even give way to smiles. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Murray J. Cart/Hong Kong and David Aikman/ Peking
...give an authorial opinion on what happiness is and how happiness relates to social justice and individual behavior would involve taking a political stance, and herein, evidently, lies the problem. Mailer's sexuality places him with the liberals; however, his bravado, his sentimentality, and his creed of suspicious-but-generous self-interest put him firmly with the social conservatives. Mailer is in many ways a typical American, and so perhaps America can take part of the responsibility for his confusion: on the other hand. America is in confusion in part because people as influential as Mailer are no help...