Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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START WITH ONE minute of funky music, add five scenes of romance and gently stir in a generous number of dance routines. Next, omit acting, plot line and subtlety. Add violence to taste, Presto. You have concocted Fast Forward, this month's feeble effort at capturing on screen the ambitions and frustrations of those crary, but immensely talented, kids just have to dance. The only prestige that Director Sidney Poitier lends the film is his name in the credits. It becomes obvious, however, that it is not enough merely to import a big name to ensure cinematic success...
...Cross is using a "Harvard-Yale Challenge," the brainchild of Connecticut and Yale volunteers, in hopes of pumping up donation rates at the two schools. At the end of this year's campaign the more generous university will receive a trophy. Going into the the drive, Harvard leads the New Haven institution by a single unit, 1056 to 1055, said Field Director Marie Cloutier Diflo...
...These were particularly warm-hearted and generous statements [by the archbishop]," says Minister of Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes. "There's a special character to this fellow...
James' enormous output owed something to both his energy and his generous life span; he reviewed regularly for 51 years, and was able to comment on a new novel by Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend) in 1865 and a posthumous collection of letters by Rupert Brooke in 1916. Also, his career happened to coincide with an expanding market for his skills. Literacy on both sides of the Atlantic was spreading, and new publications in the U.S. and England rushed into life to meet the demand for reading matter. James profited from this development, but he also, with characteristic hedging, deplored...
...recent years, many biographers learned their art in the School of Debunking. But accounts of past lives have yielded to a more generous and appreciative discipline, which has led to opposite excesses. For declaring Prince Albert "comparable to Thomas Jefferson" and for insisting that Queen Victoria's Prince Consort "merits a volume as architect, designer, farmer, and naturalist," Robert Rhodes James earns highest marks in the Warts Can Be Beautiful School of Biography...