Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Symbolical Journey. Perhaps the playhouse is so fine because it is a gift of love. It was built for a person as well as a purpose. It is Houston's outpouring of affection for Nina Vance, 53, a perky, scrappy woman who founded the Alley and fought for regional theater before the words were invented...
...pictures are stuck in at random like plums in a Christmas pudding. Each year, though, a few more big books show encouraging signs of aim and editing. Still others are notable for size, subject matter, outrageous pricing and, occasionally, sheer beauty. Among the selections listed below, hard-driven Christmas-gift seekers will even find a handful of really good books-products of taste, intelligence, talent and the kind of professional care that almost amounts to love...
Administrators say they have little control over how our $1 billion endowent is spent. They claim that most of the funds are "tied"--the term applied to a money gift when it stipulates a specific expenditure. Actually, Harvard's University Fund, which holds all the untied money, compises almost one-third of the total endowment. Last year, more than $25 million of the total $130 million which Harvard received in gifts was untied. So administrators have ample funds to use at their own discretion...
...need not worry about his new album. Cliburn's natural equipment is just right for Chopin. He has a powerful and precise technique, a gift for tracing long, soaring lines out of detailed figurations, and an innately tasteful musicality that spurns either maudlin moonbeams or brittle bravura. He puts it all to work in the Byronic B-Minor Third Sonata, playing with dash, sweep and refined lyricism. His performance of the Second, in B-flat minor, offers something more. Although not the performance of a mellow master like Rubinstein, it displays a subtle feeling for the shifting, subterranean currents...
Enter the Tribune. Just when the Agnew furor had some Democrats smacking their lips, the ardently Republican Chicago Tribune jumped on Humphrey. Its Washington Bureau Chief, Walter Trohan, reported that Humphrey and his wife Muriel had received the land for their lakeside home in Waverly, Minn., as a gift from a "wealthy patron of the Democratic Party." Inescapable in the newspaper's story was the innuendo that Humphrey had been given the land in return for services rendered to a man in trouble with the Government...