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...tried so hard to be generous, just as every Independence Day I restrain myself from playing with sparkle too close to Uncle Mort's suspiciously fluffy hair. I just could never bring myself to laugh as hard as everyone else. They looked like they were having such a good time...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Mort Sahl Speaks | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

Criqui, who hails from San Diego, where the tennis gods are more than generous with favorable weather, used to play year-round before he arrived at Harvard...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Serve This! Tennis Enthusiasts Have Their Stage | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

...Heaney has stuck with his craft and never given in to cheap and easy politics," said Lindsay Waters, an executive editor at the Harvard University Press. "He is a supporter of his fellow poets, a generous promoter of other people, and a good human being...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Heaney Top Candidate for Nobel Prize | 10/7/1994 | See Source »

...father Leland Hayward was Pamela's second husband. (Averell was her third; her first was Winston Churchill's son.) "She's greedy beyond the usual human greed." Clifford says Averell's family were deeply unhappy in 1971 when Pamela, then 51, married Averell, then 80. Adds Clifford: "He was generous to Mrs. Harriman during his lifetime, and in his will. That was resented by members of his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All My Stepchildren? Or Stepmommie Dearest? | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

Albert F. Gordon '59, a long-time HMC critic and generous University donor, called the 9.8 percent "lack-luster...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Harvard Earnings Above Average | 9/29/1994 | See Source »

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