Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia (1896)--where people apparently were less set in their ways--and then into the midst of Nixon California (1956) where people apparently are. This is achieved through supernatural power--specifically, the will of the sexy Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn, who has given her Victorian lover-loafer the gift of immortality. We follow him through the three ages into senility, and we learn that loafers are almost never happy and that the restless will always be restless. The message is not very significant, but it has lots of vitality...
Hothouse Flush. He takes to visiting her at the sanatorium, generously pays for her treatment and embarks on projects to prepare her for the outside world she must face when she is cured. He teaches her French because her only knack seems to be a gift for languages, brings her albums of great paintings, tries to broaden her knowledge of the world. But Aladar is the pupil, not Lalla. He meets two of her fellow patients-strangely charming Franciska, gently maternal Kati. He dotes on the three girls like a fond parent, becomes absorbed in the hothouse flush...
...restless, yet indolent atmosphere which betrayed most representatives' desire to go to supper as quickly as possible, the Council heard first from Greg Stone '58, chairman of Combined Charities. He said that he had looked into the best means of distributing the Harvard gift, and on the basis of his efficiency as an "expert" at fund raising, had chosen World University Service. Accordingly, and with no authorization, Stone had invited a New York representative of WUS who would explain how his organization would spend the money. The WUS man reported that all of the University's donation, along with gifts...
...important, displayed that he had little actual concern for the welfare of Hungarian citizens--which the UN as well as WUS of course, has. To Council members about to vote on the matter, his fund-collecting agency rightly seemed to be the only efficient way of assembling a Harvard gift...
Every cent of Harvard's gift will be spent directly, immediately, by the World University Service for the relief of suffering students. The University will express next Monday and Tuesday a profound humanitarian concern for repressed Hungary...