Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superior talents made him impatient and irascible. "He resented having been born young," Professor Kirkland says. He also resented having been born an Adams, and in his 60s he formally stated why this was so: "In plain language, I do not like my own father-a strong, not generous, kindly or sympathetic nature...
Some of the people contacted attribute this change in behavior to pressure from within the union for a settlement more generous than the one negotiated two years ago which met opposition when brought up for TWU ratification...
Another observer, though recognizing union pressure, believes that Quill was not motivated by a challenge to his leadership but by a desire to obtain one last generous settlement before he retires Another observer said that Quill was determined to retire in style and felt a strike was the way to accomplish this...
...Lessons. But one colored face was called in. It belonged to Conductor Henry Lewis, and for him the critics had nothing but praise. Lean and rangy as a cowpuncher, he had the orchestra playing in the best big-band tradition of the 1940s for lighter numbers, deftly shaped a generous symphonic sound for Concerto in F and Rhapsody in Blue with grand, sweeping gestures. Says Lewis: "It's harder getting a symphony to swing than getting a jazz ensemble to play Bach." At performance's end, the audience cried "Grazie, maestro!" and the string players tapped their bows...
...question the cost of the programs they voted. Texas Democrat George H. Mahon, chairman of the House Appropriations' Committee and a longtime Johnson pal, said last week that because of the stepped-up war effort in Viet Nam, the Government might find it wise to be far less generous with funds for the Great Society. "In the light of the situation confronting us," said Mahon, "it is urgent that the executive and legislative branches make a determined effort to withhold the actual spending of funds already made available by Congress for programs that can be safely slowed down, postponed...