Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...However generous Russia's gesture, the Czechoslovaks were still very much under pressure-and not likely to welcome their guests with any brass bands. The Russians' mission is nothing less than to force the Czechoslovaks to forsake the democratic reforms that Party Boss Alexander Dubček has brought to the country over the past seven months. Moscow claims that the liberalization is paving the way for subversion and counterrevolution and weakening a keystone in the entire Warsaw Defense Pact structure. The Russian talks with Prague's leaders may well determine whether democracy will have any future...
When a second building threatened to break ranks, Owings took a different tack. Developer Jerry Wolman planned to jut a commercial building onto the generous sidewalk area. Owings explained that this would ruin the grand effect, like a shoe protruding from under a curtain. Wolman finally agreed to change the building. Owings flew to Boston with Wolman to arrange the new financing, then back to the capital to get the developer a zoning variance to add an extra floor. A lot of effort, but the grand design for the avenue was kept intact...
MOZART: THE IMPRESARIO (RCA Victor). Few new releases could possiblv hove a narrower appeal than Mozart's small squib about the tribulations of a Rudolph Bing of the 18th century. Commissioned by Emperor Josef II for a party, Mozart received a generous 50 ducats (about $300) for the work. In an effort to make it a "20th century transplantation," the libretto was reworked in English by Dory Previn, Conductor Andre's wife. Her adaptation makes it a gossipy backstage operetta of fights, love affairs and campy humor. The music that interrupts the cutesy dialogue is standard Mozart...
FitzGerald, a mid-Victorian belletrist and amateur Orientalist, carried this principle to an extreme when he translated the 12th century Persian poem The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam. He condensed, combined and reshuffled the stanzas, dropping what did not suit him and pumping in generous transfusions of his own sentimental, post-Darwin fatalism. The result is one of the enduring minor poems of the language-awash with fanciful exoticism, vivid and resonant. But scholars have been scandalized by the liberties that FitzGerald took with the original, and for a century have tried in vain to supplant his version with more literal...
When the proposal was introduced in the Leverett House SCR, one member said, no one had any objections--and so it passed. "Everyone was feeling generous and exhausted by this time of year," he explained...