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...demands that one know a great deal about life-not to have settled Life's problems, but at least to recognize and accept the wide, frail world in which those problems have a home. The achievement of such perspective involves a penalty too. He who has gained that generous view inevitably moderates the books in his charge, domesticates their subversiveness, puts out the fire. As moderator he becomes a caricature, as teachers of English in fiction are always portrayed as caricatures. Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf s professor? The practice of giving apples to teachers may have...
...consulting Cabot and a handful of others in the original planning, the University implanted nothing less than an emotional stake in the Campaign among those who would provide its main support. Implicit in requesting these alumni to draw up their initial reports was an appeal to them to be generous as well. "They know that's part of the understanding," says Glimp...
...stand in the 1920s into a $116 million company that rests on a New York City chain of lunch counters, but now does 83% of its business nationally marketing its "heavenly coffee." A philanthropist who gave millions for Parkinson's disease and cancer research, Black was unusually generous with employee benefits-birthdays off with full pay, bonuses for perfect attendance, interest-free loans-and in the past year faced,a bitter battle with dissident stockholders to retain control of his company. Speculation is that a new fight will soon begin...
Least Heat Moon supplements his ample conversations with inhabitants of the various towns with the generous amounts of history he has culled from local libraries. The people he talks to, though usually reserved at first in the presence of a stranger, are almost uniformly generous with their time. We have come to think of our country as a dangerous place. Ironically, Least Heat Moon writes toward the end of his travels, "I'd traveled 10,000 miles and not encountered a single hoodlum. But I'd been taken for one several times." The observation at once seems to reflect Americans...
...example of dark intrigue which Kraus recalls from what seems to be a generous supply is the day he arrived and found that all the furniture save his desk, chair, and bookcase had been stolen in the middle of the night by a covetous fellow Senator. Having tracked the furniture, after receiving "at least six" stories about where it was and when it would be back. Kraus found that he couldn't simply retrieve it but would have to wait for the Senate President to reassert his authority. "Ultimately, they did have the confrontation," and the furniture was recovered...