Word: generously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Alumni officer smiles contentedly. If only they were all like '54. Rich, successful and generous to their alma mater, they are ideal Harvard ambassadors, men the College would like to believe typical of its graduates...
With more than $1.5 million already in hand, Abrams said he was confident that by the end of the week gifts would total "substantially more" than $1.6 million, beating out the current record set by this year's 25th reunion class at Yale. "It's always been a generous class," Abrams added, pointing to the records the class still holds for 15th and 20th reunion giving as proof...
While the dramatic vitality of Getting Out is undeniable, the play is partly an index of an indecipherable malaise in the society from which it springs. In an admittedly sickly theater season, many of the plays that have received the most critical acclaim and a generous measure of audience acceptance have been about the dying, the grotesque, the brutalized and the desolate. The Elephant Man, winner of this year's New York Drama Critics Circle Award, features a freak who is mon strous, if also in eloquent human pain. Whose Life Is It Anyway? mounts a torch...
Much running about ensues, as two forces stumble over themselves in their desire to dispatch Scheider. Like so many younger film makers today, Demme is generous in his implied homages to Hitchcock. His camera buzzes around like a mosquito looking for some place to draw blood. Maddeningly, the script offers a number of scenes that suggest an air of gathering menace, but it never quite manages to stitch them together into a tense line of force. Nor does it offer substitutes that can compensate for that defect-an off-the-wall characterization here, an unexpected plot twist there, a memorable...
...Graham has seldom suffered from the usual suspicions of Gantryism and fraud. He has always possessed a bright, generous and translucent character that reminds Frady of Melville's Billy Budd. The child of hard-working North Carolina farm people, Billy grew up so alarm ingly full of energy that his parents once took him to a doctor to see if he was nor mal. He was: an intense, passionate normality has been one of the reasons for his astonishing success. As an adolescent, he went dusting wildly over North Carolina back roads in his father's Plymouth, necked...