Word: gift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Loker's gift is such a shot in the arm for our great goals for Widener. I don't ordinarily get $17 million every weekend; I am overjoyed," said Sidney Verba '53, director of the Harvard University Library and Pforzheimer University Professor...
...Katherine Loker's stunning new gift gives [Widener] Library a wonderful boost," said Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles. "This takes a great stride towards funding the Widener renovation project, which has a very high priority...
Though Harlan's repudiation of our most cherished standards of reality ini- tially seems childishly reactionary, it is soonclear that her apparent inability to tell "truthfrom truth" is really a gift for discerning atruer truth as defined by her freely determinedindividual standards. At first, this rejection ofgenerally shared values seems an affront to thereader. Harlan's rejection of convention quicklybecomes understandable, though, as the narrativemakes clear that the common definitions of trueand untrue, right and wrong have only ever beenused to imprison her, conventions that define heras wrong and prevent her from constructing anidentity of her own so that...
Nancy B. Shafman, music department administrator, praised Tcherepnin's gift for teaching...
...repression of workers' protests in the 1970s and made contact with small opposition groups. Sacked from his job, he nonetheless climbed over the perimeter wall of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980, at age 37, to join the occupation strike. With his electrifying personality, quick wit and gift of the gab, he was soon leading it. He moved his fellow workers away from mere wage claims and toward a central, daringly political demand: free trade unions...