Word: generously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, the three Bs were Bach, booze and broads. He was as prodigious in his appetite as le was generous in spirit. But it is, of course, as a master pianist and composer in the classic tradition of U.S. jazz that Fats has proved larger than death...
...future Catholic Church workers attend a non-denominational school such as Harvard? Swain cites the lack of alternative institutions for these students, since "few Catholic seminaries will train lay people for anything." Harvard especially appeals to students because of its reputation for academic excellence and generous financial aid policy. The non-denominational status also attracts people. Most Catholic students at the Div School have attended Catholic grammar schools, high schools and colleges, Swain says, and "want a break from a kind of ghetto educational experience...
...slashed to $54 million. He further antagonized his fellow Democrats by refusing to fire thousands of Republicans holding patronage jobs. "Everyone expected a wholesale change in patronage," complains Democratic State Chairman J.C. Dillon. "That's been traditional here for generations." Rockefeller, who has hired outside experts at generous salaries (up to $55,000, which is $5,000 more than his own salary) to run some of his departments, replies that he believes in the "non-politicalness of getting things done...
...raunchy comic relief there is Lavra (Lillian Evans), the self-styled former "playgirl of Moscow" from whom a few generous swigs of vodka can elicit a tipsy ode to the joys of sex. Her opposite number is prim, spartan Iva (Lenore Har ris), a dance-exercise buff who seems to revel in single blessedness until, in a passionate and poignant outburst, she reveals its lonely curse...
...that her book grew out of her own intense commitment to feminism. Until the late '60s, she says portentously, "I was profoundly depoliticized, unable to see my own image reflected in the history of my times." As reflected in The Romance of American Communism, that image is sympathetic, generous but not clearly focused. She takes the complexities of idealism and motivation and submerges them into a provocative simile for destructive sexual desire. Even the selected evidence of her own interviews cannot adequately support such a grand moral vision...