Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Undergraduate Council Sunday night passed a resolution 45-13 to use a $15,000 gift from Harvard Dining Services to sponsor a spring concert by the band A Tribe Called Quest...
...artificial eye turned inward is not a bad metaphor for the world according to Wallace. So is tennis, as represented here by the Incandenzas' son Hal, a teen court prodigy with a gift for lexicography and a taste for recreational drugs. The game as Wallace portrays it is a good illustration of the paradox that there is no freedom without rules and limits. But where mindless circuitry and drugs prevail, human connections break and emotional blindness ensues. Gone too is that key imperative of Western civilization, "Know thyself." Hal, ever the global-village explainer, logs his own symptoms: a feeling...
...renovations are] an act of vandalism," Adams said. "They are taking a gift, meant to be a memorial to the Spanish American War, and they are treating it as if it was just another building...
...first such gift was made in 1994, the first year of the campaign, to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...
...Davis Foundation grant is the second major gift received during the five-year, $2 billion University Campaign to an international center...