Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, "The money has been given to Eliot House and even if we desired, it would not legally be possible to divert it." Bok said that no attempt would be made to divide up the alumni gift or to impound...
...masters did not learn of the Newmark gift until Eliot House announced it last week. Stewart said Alan Heimert '49, master of Eliot House, may not have known of the old policy against accepting large gifts, and therefore did not discuss it with the masters...
James Vorenberg '49, master of Dunster House, said yesterday he thought it was "sad and ironic" that Eliot House obtained a large gift when the Radcliffe Houses needed additional facilities more than Eliot
...1960s a psychic superstar came along in the person of Ted Serios, a hard-drinking, onetime bellhop from Chicago. Serios' gift was definitely offbeat: he produced pictures inside a Polaroid camera using nothing but his mind and a little hollow tube he called his "gismo." Reporters Charles Reynolds and David Eisendrath, who observed Serios at work in Denver, had little trouble constructing a device that could be secreted inside a gismo to produce all of Serios' effects. The instrument contained a minuscule lens at one end and a photographic transparency at the other. When the device was pointed...
...neither her literary style - classically chaste in the presence of agony - nor her Christian conscience that gives this book its delicately fierce power. What makes A Guard Within a rarity of its genre is this: in her consuming (but unconsummated) affection for her analyst, Sarah Ferguson expresses a gift for life as intense as her gift for pain...