Word: generousity
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There are 375,000 key holders in the U.S. Among them is a generous sprinkling of leaders in government and business, as well as a lion's share of professors. For new job seekers, the benefits of carrying a key are hard to assess. "Quite frankly, sometimes it's a hindrance," says John Delgrosso, an administrator at New York University. "People are seen as overqualified, and other people feel threatened by that." Most corporations hire out of graduate school and judge applicants accordingly. But a spokesman at a New York brokerage firm admits: "A key is something...
...stampeding cattle. The casual eye is reminded of the work of Frederic Remington; the more discerning see the energy and muscular humanism of the Renaissance statues. In Harry Jackson (Abrams; 308 pages; $125) Author-Editors Larry Pointer and Donald Goddard sample Jackson's abstract work and offer a generous selection of his realism along with a biography of one of the mavericks of American...
...generous souls, the season will be one of giving, not receiving. "I have received presents from Santa Claus only a long, long, time ago," says Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish poet who is giving this year's Norton Lectures. "I give presents now--mostly clothing for my family, something fancy or pleasant...
...among the most prosperous states. There are still residues of that auto-mobilized prosperity. Wages in the private sector, led by United Auto Workers' contracts, are the highest in the nation, at an average of $315 a week. State unemployment and workmen's compensation programs have generous eligibility rules. For example, Michigan, unlike other states, does not require disabled workers to accept retraining in another field. Welfare payments to families with dependent children have been cut three times this year (to about $450 a month for a mother and three minors), but last year Michigan ranked second...
Muhammad cut the sleeve from his robe rather than disturb his friend, asleep on the Prophet's gown. Samuel Johnson daily pampered his spoiled companion Hodge with meals of fresh oysters. Victor Hugo cherished Gavroche. Cardinal Richelieu left a generous legacy for the 14 he owned. Napoleon is said to have broken into a cold sweat at the sight of one. In his childhood, Smerdyakov, in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, was fond of hanging them. Thomas Hardy and Thomas Gray wrote poems to them; Hemingway shared dinner with his. Physician and Scholar Albert Schweitzer favored two ways...