Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of presenting Maria Callas [Oct. 29] as a true diva-one who is generous, dignified and kind-you only succeed in impressing me that she is an overindulged, selfish, unforgiving egocentric...
...American Management Association recently announced the first series of educational programs for small businessmen in its 33-year history. This year more than 70 colleges and universities throughout the U.S. are offering a total of 157 SBA-sponsored courses for small-business executives. With better executive training, more generous rewards for talented men, and continued emphasis on the individual pride of accomplishment that has traditionally attracted U.S. businessmen to independent companies, most small-business leaders today are confident that they can outperform, even outgrow the biggest companies in the U.S. As one vice president said at a small-business seminar...
...Lord's Prayer backwards," tweaked William Wordsworth's nose and addressed him as, "You rascally old Lake poet!" Some see him as an overelaborate, rather cute stylist; others brush aside what they feel are merely trappings and hail Lamb as one of the kindest, most generous men that ever lived. Editor Matthews manages to include all these Lambs in his selection and to write what is probably the truest, briefest epitaph: "His friends loved him: his friends still...
...gone. People no longer can give only money to community projects-they must give themselves." So says Thomas H. Coulter, head of Chicago's Association of Commerce and Industry. With this, most U.S. businessmen are in full agreement. While civic-minded executives and their companies still write generous checks (last year corporate donations of $100 and up totaled 40% of Community Chest donations, 34% of United Fund contributions), many businessmen are not content to discharge their public responsibilities with cash alone. Instead, more and more executives are donating time and talent to civic projects, from the Red Cross...
...more level than that of earlier Shavian biographers, who usually presented him as a fabulous monster. Ervine is able to discuss his immense shyness, to chide him when necessary for the "tosh" that often came from his "spinsterly mind," to assert, against all previous evidence, that he was generous in money matters, and to dispose of Oxford Don A.J.P. Taylor's assertion that "Shaw was never unhappy." Shaw's loveless childhood, drink-ridden father and hungry adolescence make it quite clear that few university dons have started life with so many handicaps or so much courage. In some...