Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conditions, several West Bank towns, including Nablus and Hebron, have refused to accept further aid. The Arab world has rewarded their defiance by "adopting" West Bank municipalities. Hebron has been taken under the wing of Saudi Arabia's holy city of Medina, which is underwriting a $15 million gift. Mayor Freij of Bethlehem, which was adopted by Abu Dhabi, returned last month from a visit to that oil-rich Persian Gulf sheikdom with pledges of $600,000 now and $10 million later to develop his town's tourist business...
MARK McCORMACK, 46, has a special gift: he turns muscle into gold off the playing field, for which he takes a hefty 15% to 40% of his client's earnings. His Cleveland-based International Management Group represents 250 golfers (Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player), tennis stars (Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg) and other athletes, has some 300 employees and last year grossed $35 million. Arnold Palmer, one of McCormack's first clients and closest friends, now earns about $350,000 a year, only some 5% of it from golfing. McCormack can even make financial champions out of novices -like Laura...
...Seferis Chair was endowed two years ago by a gift of $1 million from the Greek government but has remained unoccupied since then...
...SAVILLES' RELIGION is, in fact, upward mobility, and it is this which is to be their gift to Colin. To evade the mines, the eternal sameness and the dirt of pit life--for this, his parents' goal, Colin must struggle to harmonize the different requirements of village and school. The task is almost impossible. Returning home by bus while his more prosperous schoolmates take the train, Colin encounters an increasing demand for sacrifice and his parents' barely concealed scorn for the life they have foisted...
Stafford's facility finds its parallel in Storey's own gift for creating character and scene. Storey's style is unobtrusive; but the sense of reality which eludes Colin is all about him, in Storey's precise depiction of the fictional world he inhabits. The effects in Saville are rarely obvious; our passport into Colin's dilemma is understatement and the slow accumulation of detail. Storey uses strings of adjectives almost lovingly. Writing of Colin's mother, he says: "It was as if her life had flooded out, secretly, without their knowledge, and she some helpless agent, watching this dissolution...