Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antiquarian passion that swept a good part of the British upper classes at the time, when architects like Sir George Gilbert Scott and A.W.N. Pugin were creating hundreds of Neo-Gothic churches and restorations throughout England, and Sir Charles Barry was faking the medieval Houses of Parliament. For a generous spirit like Morris, it was an easy step from saying that life once was beautiful to believing that it could and should be beautiful again...
...rumbustious skippers and mutinous crewmen. Of late, the U.S. Navy has pitched and rolled to a real-life story that has all the elements of legend: a destroyer in war-torn waters, a high-handed captain called Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, a roster of rebellious junior officers respectively named Hardy, Generous and Belmonte, and a precipitate change of command that reverberated clear to the Secretary of the Navy-thereby threatening the careers of some of the service's brightest brass...
...Marcus Mad Log." Along with the Vance's twelve other officers, Lieut. R. S. Hardy Jr., the executive officer, wasted no love on the new skipper; he felt that Arnheiter was too zealous. Operations Officer William T. Generous, a bespectacled lieutenant who had undergone psychiatric treatment before Arnheiter's accession, resented the fantail services; a Catholic, he considered them a Protestant imposition, and at Hardy's suggestion wrote a letter of complaint to a Catholic chaplain. Gunnery Officer Luis G. Belmonte, another lieutenant, took umbrage when Arnheiter asked him to wade fully clothed into the water...
...noted that Arnheiter once drank spiked eggnog aboard, and kept a pitcher of brandy in the officers' mess to pour over his peaches and ice cream-a blatant violation of nonalcoholic Navy Regulations. At a ship's party in Guam, the skipper ordered Generous to sit cross-legged at his feet, and had another officer roll up his trouser legs and act as a "pompom girl." He also ordered his officers to give impromptu speeches at dinner on cultural subjects (sample theme: "Opera-Box Etiquette in Milano"). But it was Arnheiter's gung-ho tactics in combat...
...pages of anti-Arnheiter testimony, Vice Admiral B. J. Semmes Jr., chief of naval personnel, declared Arnheiter guilty of "a gross lack of judgment and inability to lead people." Arnheiter now holds a minor post in San Francisco; Hardy, 32, is a lieutenant commander in Key West, Fla.; Generous, 27, is studying for a Ph.D. at Stanford in U.S. diplomacy; Belmonte, 26, is in the San Francisco stock market. There it might have ended, save for Arnheiter's barrage of letters to the Navy Department demanding a rehearing (the file is nearly three feet deep), and the powerful endorsement...