Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time was also spent collecting sea shells--15,000 of them--and rare books. When the books and shells overflowed his house, Neruda packed them up and delivered them to Chile's National University in Santiago. Anti-communist thundering against the acceptance of the gift consigned them to oblivion; 20 years after he had donated the collection, Neruda related that they never had appeared before the public, perhaps having been returned to the sea and the used bookstores of the world...
...trainers and jockeys. Onetime Jockey Sammy Renick watched the young Kentuckian ride, and came away impressed. Says Renick: "He has great hands. Horses settle in and run kindly for him. Few jockeys have this touch. Steve hits the horse at the right time, which is a feel, a gift...
Perhaps Mr. Bright should have thought of a less boastful slogan than I FOUND IT! "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast" [Ephesians 2: 8-9]. Many evangelical Christians would agree that a more appropriate slogan would be HE FOUND...
Director Ed Berman moves the evening along with stopwatch precision. Because of his gift for parody and incessant wordplay, Stoppard's own affinity may be not so much with Wilde and Coward as with S.J. Perelman, a writer whom he greatly admires...
...intense and excitable man who is always trying to buoy his boy's confidence. By the peculiar standards of bodybuilding, young Louis appears to be every bit as gorgeous as Arnold. What he cannot see, and what his old man will never accept, is that Arnold has a gift that cannot be acquired no matter how hard an athlete trains, no matter how many pep talks replete with references to Michelangelo's sculpture he absorbs. It is, of course, the gift of charisma, something capable of magically compelling his opponent's collapse and the judges' favorable...