Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monet Was Generous. Berthe turned her home over to impressionism's rising lights. She befriended Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Pissaro; Claude Monet generously painted a large landscape for her when she mentioned that she needed something to decorate her studio. Pierre Auguste Renoir joined her circle while he was still painting china plates and window shades for a living. Berthe helped set up exhibits of the group's work, her own included, joined in organizing auctions, and spent hours trying to bring unfriendly critics around to impressionism...
...minutes) to its bittersweet end were warned this week to get ready for a third round-and maybe a fourth or fifth: Wind Producer David O. Selznick announced that he has bought the stage, radio and TV rights to the book. Package price: a $3,500 down payment, plus generous royalty percentages. First up, said Selznick, will be a musical version called Scarlett O'Hara, which, in accordance with his contract with the estate of the late Author Margaret Mitchell, will be produced on Broadway within two years...
...important intangible asset is the character of Newfoundland's hardy people. Newfies (a term they use but do not much like) are nearly all natives; 98% were born on the island, mostly of English and Channel Island stock, with generous traces of Irish, Scotch and French. Isolated for centuries, their character tempered by wresting a living from their bleak island and the sea around it, the Newfies have developed into an independent, hardworking, happy breed. Their wit and individuality show strongly in their geographic names. Newfoundland places are called Happy Adventure, Come By Chance, Heart's Delight, Witless...
...their plutonium; it will be burned too. If uranium gets scarce, the "fertile blanket" can be made of thorium, which neutrons turn into fissionable U-233-Dr. Zinn did not give the cost of natural uranium, but he estimated that if it cost $35 a Ib. (probably a generous figure), the fuel cost of the power produced from it would be only .0013? a kilowatt-hour. The fuel cost of electricity from coal is about .35? a kilowatt-hour-nearly 300 times as much...
...pioneers in a new country or just men & women working out their private, earthly fates, East of Eden is too blundering and ill-defined to make its story point. That point, says Steinbeck, is "the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil." East of Eden has over-generous portions of both, but a novelist who knows what he wants channels them, he doesn't spill them...