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...gift, which according to Director of Athletics William J. Cleary Jr. 56, came from "generous donors," was as much a ransom as a token of generosity...
...Only a hair lies between our being successful, self-confident, achieving, upbeat, open to change, able to change, generous [in] spirit, fulfilling for our people...and floundering mediocrity," McArthur said at Yale...
...surviving on a monthly total of about$600 in dues and contributions, plus theoccasional more generous donation...
...possible that Jackie's quest for money -- probably the reason behind her unhappy marriage to Onassis -- is rooted in her father's financial troubles. But her stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss, was generous; she headed off to Miss Porter's School, an ultra-posh boarding school, with her own horse. Two years at Vassar followed, but Jackie was too restless to thrive in the leafy confines of a Poughkeepsie, New York, campus. She finished college at George Washington University and, spurning the Prix de Paris offers, began her job as the Inquiring Photographer for the Washington Times-Herald...
...connection to a time, to an old America that was more dignified, more private, an America in which standards were higher and clearer and elegance meant something, a time when elegance was a kind of statement, a way of dressing up the world, and so a generous act. She had manners, the kind that remind us that manners spring from a certain moral view -- that you do tribute to the world and the people in it by being kind and showing respect, by sending the note and the flowers, by being loyal, and cheering a friend. She was a living...