Word: gifts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...accepted if Harvard frankly faced the implications and charted a determined posture of careful independence from these influences. Unfortunately, statements on this score so far fall short of the reassuring: "it would be wrong to accept money from a government of a divided country like Korea. But this gift, coming from a private organization like the KTA, was fine" seems either uninformed or uncandid while "I don't think it is really the university's business to think about the underlying motives of those who give the grants" is clearly contradicted by the University's rejection of the Hanfstaengel donation...
Before trysting with spectres, however, we should concede that even origin in an unusually unprincipled and anti-democratic government does not mean that black evil along crouches on the KTA gift. KTA, all Koreans and scholars of Korea, including myself, share a determination to see studies of Korean culture flourish independently of (though cooperatively with) Japanese and Chinese studies as is due the durable and unique culture of a nation paralleling Italy and Spain in recent importance. KTA officials have pressed this claim with dignity as well as funds; all with reck of cultural values and international peace should applaud...
...breakfast with city department heads, he and his wife Eleanor were presented with a gift of round-trip tickets to Ireland, homeland of the mayor's grandparents. At the Civic Center Plaza, Hizzoner watched artists fashion Christmas sculptures out of ice. On to the dedication of a new gymnasium, where Daley deftly sank a basket...
OBSESSION. De Palma again-this time in a romantic mood. The story of a man given a chance to reclaim a love he thought irretrievably lost and to expiate a dreadful guilt-strains credulity. But the director's fluid technique and his gift for ravishing imagery-underscored by the lush music of the late Bernard Herrmann-sweep aside any tendency to disbelieve...
...exceptional novelist's gift for making a reader believe in a character's predicaments even when he may not be lieve in the character...