Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month, the Japanese government contributed $1 million toward the center. Takeshi Yasuka, Japan's ambassador to the United States, personally presented the gift to President...
Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and coordinator of the Institute fund-raising drive, said yesterday that he was "delighted" with the gift. "Such a contribution is especially appreciated when one considers that the Japanese economy has been terribly shocked by the oil crisis," he added...
...then there is Dostoevsky, who, says Fyodor, the hero of Nabokov's The Gift, "turned Bedlam back into Bethlehem." Nabokov doesn't like old Fyodor because of his mysticism, his sentimentality, his journalese. There is a difference of type: Dostoevsky was a rough writer, who often scrawled or dictated under the burden of absurd deadlines, and Nabokov is a careful, multiple re-writer. Nabokov's condemnation must also be seen as the answer to a question forced especially on any Russian writer: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. It is a question of native sensibility...
...member of NASA said the donation was "huge" by standards of the time. "The University's tax report for the previous year shows a net worth of 400 pounds, so the gift doubled the worth of the University," he said...
...start feminist study groups, where to get radio air time for movement programs, and how to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. For women moving to the country, there are the names of magazines covering animal hoof trimming and goat breeding. There is also the perfect gift for the unenlightened boss or boy friend: a male-chauvinist-pig pincushion-with initials...