Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discrimination is wrong, intrinsically, a proposition hard to defend at Harvard, whose sister, Radcliffe, frankly discriminates against males. (Harvard considers students enrolled in Radcliffe to "be enrolled, in accordance with present practice, in Harvard College with all the rights and privileges accorded Harvard College enrollment;" Radcliffe is not so generous. So, the Radcliffes are Harvard, but the Harvards aren't Radcliffes...
Harvard can be very generous to the homeless in an institutional way--witness its contributions of food and money to area shelters. But this was not a case of "the homeless problem." These were people--and that's all that needs to be said about them. They have probably found another place to stay (hopefully not a shelter, if that's not what they wanted.) But the act was done--and it is overwhelmingly...
...pepper this psycho-sexual stew with a generous dose of True West mythos (lassos, gunracks, motel notells), an ensemble cast as good as they get, honkytonk lovesongs and sets designed by Levi-Strauss, and you've got yourself a bowl of three-alarm movie-making...
...natural wonders of the U.S. In a big old touring car with Warren Harding in Yellowstone in 1923, Albright told the President he had sealed off the road and "it will be 20 miles before we see another soul." Harding joyously pulled out some chewing tobacco, cut himself a generous plug and rumbled toward Old Faithful, expertly spitting the juice over his shoulder and "neatly clearing the side...
...lover spectacular glimpses of a great nature. Then, just when she thinks she has grasped him, he slips away into the clouds. Meryl Streep, as Dinesen, is his perfect match. Always at her best when challenged to leave her own time and place for regions more passionate and generous, Streep embodies an aristocrat's arrogance toward the unknown and an artist's vulnerability to it. They play against each other warily and discreetly, often content to let their silences, and the flow of the movie itself, speak for them...