Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite eleventh-hour efforts to withhold its class gift in protest of a lack of female faculty at the University, the Radcliffe Class of 1960 was unable to prevent Harvard from receiving the money...
...resolution to withhold the gift was formally approved at a June 7 meeting during the class' 35th reunion...
Bass' great gift is his ability to set a mood. Whether typifying the "Quiet desperation" Thoreau described or expressing the peace that comes after doing something difficult and doing it well, the characters, natural environment, dialogue and narration work together to give the piece just the right flavor...
...voter" program that requires states to let people register to vote when applying for a driver's license--after Lopez, all those could now be accused of resting on a thinly stretched interpretation of how the activity in question affects the national economy. But the ruling is no clear gift to Republicans. Federal crime-control measures that forbid everything from domestic violence to carjacking could also be vulnerable...
...Paxton as Haise, Kevin Bacon as Swigert) keep things cool, especially when they nearly freeze in their icy cabin. And Hanks provides the anchor. His Lovell--as strong, faithful and emotionally straightforward as Forrest Gump--carries the story like a precious oxygen backpack. His resourcefulness gives Lovell strength; his gift for conveying worry gives the film its humanity and a purchase on ordinary-Joe heroism...