Word: generous
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Bartoli is right that no amount of coaching can create a voice like hers; one must be born with the raw material. But she was born with more than that. Her dark good looks project grandly across the footlights: a mane of lustrous hair, huge brown eyes, a generous mouth and milky shoulders that enhance a decolletage. She also has temperamental stability and a ready sense of humor. Says conductor James Levine, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera: "She has extraordinary self-perception, without the narcissism and the rest of the baloney." She will need her level-headedness...
...hooks on which I hang my recollections of that powerful young man. As my wife and I were waiting last Wednesday evening for the movie "Malcolm X" to begin, we looked for words that might best describe the person we recalled: "handsome, attractive, forceful, caring, committed, generous, energetic, absolutely no sham or pretense, nothing superficial, open human, totally sincere," and nouns like "integrity," and "conviction." Although we had disagreed with his ideas and much of what he said, both of us had admired him as a human being and liked him enormously...
Once upon a time "Harvard" was merely a last name. If generous John had had a different surname, we might all root for "Mother Taylor" in The Game, or wear sweatshirts reading "FRANKLIN" or "MILES STANDISH...
...proctor, a graduate student, a roommate--who actually listened to me and gave me support. But I would be lying if I didn't say I'd hadn't any moments when I wanted to give up and go home to Mom and Dad. The University can be generous, but not always up to giving you warm fuzzies. But then, neither is the real world...
School choice is still in its infant stages. Success stories have come out of East Harlem, N.Y., Montclair, N.J. and Cambridge, Mass. as well. These schools fortunately received generous grants, indicating that any new move by the president must be supplemented with further educational budget allocations...