Word: generously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While those facts, reported last week by the San Francisco Chronicle, were not denied, Lynch insisted that there was no connection between his promotion and Wallach's generous award. Lynch said he had not approved the fee in writing and had referred the matter in December to another judge. After the father of one of the girls objected to paying the lawyers 57% of the award (25% is normal in such cases), the second judge in 1982 reduced their fee to $322,000. The California state bar is reportedly investigating Wallach's firm for seeking the high payment. The office...
Ayckbourn is often described as the Neil Simon of Britain. Both are prolific (Ayckbourn, 48, has written more than 30 plays), popular with mainstream audiences, observant of middle-class absurdities and almost compulsively funny, no matter how dark the underlying theme. The key difference: Simon has a forgiving, generous spirit toward his characters, while Ayckbourn is increasingly merciless. Audiences pause amid laughter and abruptly realize that the landscape is blasted. Ayckbourn borrowed this technique, if not much else, from Chekhov, and at his best -- as in Season's Greetings, Time and Time Again and Woman in Mind -- uses it just...
...what causes Dukakis to hold himself distant. Would he be able, as President, to give up some of that distance and reach out and grab what he will really need from other people? Is there something beneath that metallic surface to persuade others that at heart his instincts are generous and truly humane? Can Dukakis, a man who seals off his emotional responses, establish an emotional connection that moves the country...
...argument is a sound one; perhaps Radcliffe alums wouldn't be so generous if they understood what their money supported. But it's hard to justify the University's continuing a deception simply because doing so effectively parts graduates and their money...
...This generous gift ensures, in a way the Divinity School never could before, continuation of an association that is a wellspring of the HDS identity," said Ronald F. Thiemann, dean...