Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biographer's view, Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was a genius with a powerful physical presence. His foresight, combined with a generous, romantic spirit, made him irresistible to women and children and, indeed, to much of the reading public. Rebecca West, by contrast, was a woman of sharp beauty, "wit, acute observation . . . and a wild paranoia." Through the ten years of their romance, she tells friends of various humiliations: Wells ignores her, he suffers from fits of maniacal rage, he becomes childishly dependent. But the author says, "I cannot believe a word . . . they are inventions," and then goes...
...their evocations of landscape? It is a tour which takes the reader from the earliest murmurs of monks and gypsies (anonymous stories told long before the introduction of the English to Ireland) to the contemporary voices of young Irish and Northern Irish poets. Accompanying the text is a generous assortment of related photographs. But it is a tour--packaging, like so many picturesque towns, the landmarks of Irish literature into one slim volume...
...STORY IS however a familiar one. A few years back Soviet authorities were alarmed to find that the Russians caviar trade was about to collapse because the special breed of fish required was slowly doing out. With a casual request to Washington, the U.S.S.R. received free of charge, a generous supply of a nearly identical species of American fish under an earlier research sharing agreement. The consequence was American fish eggs in Russian containers at exorbitant prices...
...automakers are by no means alone in receiving increasingly generous raises. Sibson & Co., a New Jersey-based consulting firm that monitors executive compensation, estimates that the chief executive officers of leading American industrial companies will average a 12.5% gain in salary and bonuses during 1984, a rise far outpacing the expected inflation rate...
...Alumni at Harvard are uniquely generous and there are more of them involved in fundraising." Reardon said, adding that the Harvard Campaign involves more than 5000 alumni workers. "There's not another private institution in the world that has that kind of support," he said...