Word: gift
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...chair, named the Helen Zelaznik Professorship for Holocaust and Cognate Studies, was to have been endowed by a gift of more than $3 million from the Kenneth and Evelyn Lipper Foundation...
...dissolution of the search com- mittee and the reallocation of the Lippers'gift marks the end of a long and controversialstruggle to fill the position...
Kohl's most endearing trait is his straight-forward, bluntly honest voice--one might surmise that after thirty years experience with school-age children, the author's gift for clearing out needless discourse has been honed to a razor's edge. Simple diction, while vital for pedantry, has its drawbacks in the modern non-fiction market: every once in a while Kohl's hand can be felt patting the reader on the head, as if recruiting another kindergartner into his throngs of supporters. This is not to say that condescension (if it can be called such) is not totally displeasing...
...rock concerts, where the screams and chants of die-hard groupies eventually convince the stars to return to the stage. Despite a definitive absence of screaming and chanting in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory (NEC) on Sunday, March 1, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra bestowed the rare gift of an encore performance upon its audience. Brought to the NEC in the midst of the 1997-98 BankBoston Celebrity Series, the orchestra, with conductor Joseph Silverstein and piano soloist Derek Han, already possessed a well-packaged program of Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann--one could not have asked for a more...
Nichols has also raised what might be called the Testosterone Theory of Public Office. As he told the cast during an early read-through, "We've often thought about our leaders, 'He's a great man and has a real gift with people--too bad he can't keep his dick in his pants.' But the very gift that makes him a great leader is the same thing that keeps him jumping on a lot of women. We tend to split it up into a 'good' side and a 'bad' side. The fact that it's the same vitality...