Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful businessman (wholesale drugs) in his own right. Moscoso knew what Puerto Rico had that mainland investors wanted: a stable government, good transportation facilities, a large, increasingly skilled and relatively low-cost labor market. By offering generous tax exemption as well, he encouraged 834 companies to invest more than $500 million in the island; the island's economy shot ahead until today its $622 annual per capita income is more than double the Latin American average...
...London, the occasion was apt to follow a rigid ritual. The critics would arrive, admire the deft draftsmanship, and report in awe that though John did not change, he never seemed to date. Then would come John's friends-poets, artists, actors, M.P.s, and a generous sampling of the House of Lords-chatting and advising. Finally, John himself, bearded and majestic, would sweep in, his headgear-whether a beret or black Homburg or battered trilby-cocked at some outlandish angle. He would stay only an hour or so. "Very exhausting, all that," he would...
...wife snowball like a humorous, extravagant folktale. He hires out for a wife, works seven years only to get the wrong girl, and has to start all over again. And with each new wife he receives, there is a slave girl who also becomes involved in Jacob's rather generous instinct for fatherhood. You see what I mean...
...standards of excellence of modern English light fiction--comfortable clarity and generous wit--are, like Shakespeare's standards, centered in that purest of human pleasures, a garden, this one the size of shire, and tended until her recent death by the softly malicious and completely delightful Angela Thirkell. Those writers intelligent enough to acknowledge Mrs. Thirkell's leadership (like Nevil Shute and 'Miss Read') have always enjoyed the quiet success their sound judgment deserved; those rebellious Angries (like John Braine, John Wain and that lot) who have ignored her example have inevitably become eminently unreadable. Their prose becomes barren, sluggish...
Riesman qualifies his statements almost continuously, and a little defensively. He seeks to hold a middle ground, neither condemning the other-directed nor exalting the inner-directed. Yet there is something a little disturbing in his generous tolerance, and in the utopia of autonomy. As Dahrendorf observes, the autonomous seems very like the inner-directed, and Riesman is disturbingly kind to the other-directed. The categories are ideal types, and they don't work well on real people--this much Riesman admits: they are, in fact, polarities of behavior. But much of this collection of critiques is devoted to showing...