Word: giver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Monrad says it's important to find out the potential giver's interests. For example, he says, "if the person's conservative, find a conservative professor [for them to talk...
...rules tolerate large swaths of gray and encourage euphemism. Bribes, graft and expenses-paid vacations are never talked about on Capitol Hill. Honorariums, campaign contributions and per diem travel reimbursements are. Cash gifts, even of $100,000, are not automatically illegal, as long as they are disclosed and the giver has no direct interest in legislation. Neither is free use of posh apartments and expensive cars...
...from a bleeding ankle and too little sleep, was milling around the Harvard Radcliffe delegation when an unidentified woman came up to her and said, "Your foot is bleeding--you need some socks. Take these." The reporter did as instructed, but when she turned around to thank the sock-giver, the mysterious benefactor had disappeared...
...custom chairs, custom lighting fixtures, custom rugs, custom windows and custom door handles. His signature gesture, geometric figures imprinted onto everything from windows to tableware in a kind of new-age homage to Johannes Kepler, can seem the impulse of a meticulous craftsman, not a large-scale form giver...
...ancient Chinese depicted Chaos as an enormous egg whose parts separated into earth and sky, yin and yang. The Greeks believed Gaia, the earth, was created immediately after Chaos and gave birth to the gods. In many pagan societies, the earth was seen as a mother, a fertile giver of life. Nature -- the soil, forest, sea -- was endowed with divinity, and mortals were subordinate...