Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days, Algeria's rebels had backed and filled over Charles de Gaulle's renewed and more generous offer of peace negotiations (TIME, June 27). At first they refused to fly in an official French plane. Then, taking passage in a Tunis Air DC-4, the rebels finally dispatched a three-man "advance guard" headed by Ahmed Boumendjel, 52, who is "Premier"' Ferhat Abbas' version of Jim Hagerty. When their plane finally landed at Orly (one engine conked out en route), the rebel delegates were hastily whisked off by helicopter to Melun, where Roger Moris, De Gaulle...
Biographer Pearson leaves Charles with a balanced assessment that recalls one of Shaw's prose arias: "His imaginative nature made him gentle, but also weak. His intelligence made him tolerant, but also indifferent. His rational disposition made him considerate, but also negligent. His sense of loyalty made him generous, but also extravagant. His mental balance gave him humour as well as irresponsibility. His natural charity brought indolence as well as callousness." Withal, concludes Pearson, he was "the sanest, most human and civilised of monarchs...
...anywhere, if only the eye is gifted enough to see. One artist found himself well supplied with old beams when his house was torn down. A favorite smock that has become too worn to wear can be dipped in glue and hurled against a door, and a generous helping of red paint mixed with bucket, cans and surgical gauze produces a grizzly montage called Capt Canaveral. But the show also has surprises of another sort. A 24-year-old Englishman named Anthony Magar has used burned and stained wood, stitched canvas and pounded metal to create a big picture that...
...would hate to live there-and never get tired of saying so. In this picture Scenarist Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin, who also wrote the 1950 Broadway comedy that his script is borrowed from, feeds the out-of-town customers a mess of their own sour grapes, along with a generous helping of sex, sentiment, sadism and smartchat...
...myth of the American frontier. On Cooper's novels of the New York wilderness-The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer-rests the somewhat guarded claim of the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he is "the most important man of letters ever connected with Yale,"* and the more generous assertion that "he created an American literature out of American materials...