Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEATLE who seems most interesting as presented in Hunter Davies' book is, not surprisingly I suppose, John Lennon. He displays a personality by turns ironic, tender, farcially funny, bitter, nasty, generous, and deeply despairing. His attitude towards the world, towards art, the Beatles, himself, his family, his past is always ambiguous, usually ironic and tinged with a definite sadness...
Lennon is at times completely cut off from the outside world. He is entirely silent, speaking to no one, not even his wife, for as long as three days at a time. Conversely, he can be violently generous with himself and his money, and wildly exuberant in playing with his mates, the other Beatles. In all, John displays the complexity of character, the difficult emotional life that we associate with the artist...
...Fulbright program has been generous to Harvard in recent years. Each year American students, undergraduate and graduate, have won about 900 one year scholarships for study and travel abroad. Of these, Harvard students have usually won about 60, more than any other university in the country...
Uncertain Role. The move would end long years of anguish for Minh. A generous monthly pension of $1,800 has allowed him to live well in Bangkok, raising orchids, working on his memoirs (465 pages so far) and playing tennis at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club...
...otherwise generous spirit, Montejo seems to have been extremely miserly with his personal independence. With typical Latin machismo, he brags about his womanizing and the fact that no female ever succeeded in tying him down. Indeed, Montejo appears to have made a successful career out of avoiding entangling alliances of any sort. Who can blame him for being a little self-satisfied about it? At 107, Montejo clearly has reason to believe that he must be doing something right...