Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tropics have bulked large. Now. after several years of subterranean fame, Lolita has finally found a U.S. publisher. Following Nabokov's earlier excellent, offbeat novels (including Pnin, TIME, March 18, 1957), Lolita should give his name its true dimensions and expose a wider U.S. public to his special gift-which is to deal with life as if it were a thing created by a mad poet on a spring night...
...First gift announced by the Rockefeller-endowed Philippine foundation named for the late President Ramon Magsaysay: $10,000 to India's gentle, bearded Vinoba Bhave (TIME, May 11, 1953), for community leadership. A dhoti-clad disciple of Mohandas Gandhi, Ascetic Bhave seven years ago set out walking the land to talk landowners into giving 50 million acres free to landless families, so far has collected some 7,000,000 acres, 2,500 entire villages. Said the citation: "He has sought nothing for himself, least of all recognition of his achievements, and has won the highest respect of his countrymen...
Because the new Honors program is specifically designed "to improve the quality of the educational process," said Pusey, "it has seemed to us appropriate . . . to devote the Procter and Gamble gift to the development of this program...
Procter and Gamble's bequest was similar to a gift from Colgate-Palmolive several years ago, earmarking unrestricted funds for certain universities which had produced a great many Colgate-Palmolive corporation executives...
...more complete discussion of the implications of Procter and Gamble's gift to the changing Harvard curriculum, and its role in the Program for Harvard College's drive for $82.5 million follows in a feature on page...