Word: generous
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...think of any other historian whose teaching was so important to so many people. His courses were a major force in Harvard's intellectual life, and through Harvard, as through other universities in which he taught, in the country at large. And over the years he was a warm, generous, and supportive friend to generations of students, and to his colleagues. Bernard Bailyn, Adams University Professor
...gift is the most generous in a long history of Pforzheimer family's involvement with Harvard and Radcliffe...
...period is the taxes and the blizzard of paperwork that also come through the door. So stringent are the legal requirements that the Internal Revenue Service estimates that no more than one-quarter of American families with household help bother to obey the law -- and that assessment is probably generous...
WHILE CASPAR WEINBERGER AND FIVE OTHER SUSPECTS IN the Iran-contra affair got pardons for Christmas, the Santa in the White House was not so generous to everyone. CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, the onetime Defense Secretary indicted for helping the Bank of Credit & Commerce International secretly buy two U.S. banks, received coal in his stocking. He was up for consideration, but counsel C. Boyden Gray recommended against a pardon, and Bush agreed. Reason: Clifford's indictment suggests he reaped a bundle from his B.C.C.I. connection...
...school at age 17 -- very late to start serious classical training. His sheer will and magnetism won the day. Perhaps because he began by playing catch-up, Nureyev was not considered a natural dancer. He was blessed with a high leap and, in addition to athletic vigor, the noble, generous moves that are nearly impossible to teach. But he lacked, say, the sublime coordination of Mikhail Baryshnikov, and he had to work hard for his technique; a former colleague recalls that he was always looking for someone to teach him how to turn...