Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Australian government has decided to give Harvard a gift of about $1 million to set up an endowed chair in the study of Australia and Australian relationships with the rest of the world...
...with self-restraint, remains the most stirring and hope-giving in the catalogue of political systems. What is needed for its survival is a rigorous concentration on its meaning, including a concentration on some things the Declaration left out. Freedom, like the Declaration itself, is not a gift but a permanent demand on us to keep giving. Perhaps in our minds we need to insert in the Declaration some words like these: ". . . that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain inescapable duties, and that among those duties are work, learning and the pursuit of responsibility." For our attitude...
...government. To his admirers, he is the champion of the downtrodden, a political savior who has emerged from retirement to save them from what they see as despotic rule. The independent-minded son of a minor Bihar state official, Narayan at the age of 19 used a $600 wedding gift to set off alone to the U.S., where he studied at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin and became a convert to Communism. Returning to India, he became deeply involved with Gandhi and Nehru in the independence movement. Still, he was not an advocate of Gandhi's principles...
Mexico City finally settled down again as the 6,000 or so female-and 240 male-visitors attending the two-week International Women's Year Conference went home. As a parting gift to the women delegates of the U.N.-sponsored affair (TIME, July 7), the Mexican government passed out dolls in wicker baskets. Huffed Australia's delegate Elizabeth Reid: "It never crossed their minds to give them...
...Claremon. 192 pages. Knopf. $6.95. This remarkable novelette refutes an ancient adage: blood can be coaxed from a stone. The stone is that adamantine sector between Mexico and the U.S. The blood is the fervent tale of an American scientist, J.P., and his Indian mistress, Tsari. J.P.'s gift is an ordinary one: he can only find water under dry land. Tsari has more profound talents: in trances she can heal wounds, commune with animals and see the human soul. It is a secret that she comes in time to share-with ambiguous and perhaps dire results...