Word: largess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway straight drama is a waif, proffered an occasional crumb of grudging acceptance; in London it sits at the head of the theatrical table dispensing "a largess universal, like the sun." Herewith a sampler of three offerings-a scintillant farce, a strong message play and a classic...
...want Harvard to divest of holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. Unlike the majority, we want to make our point through rallies and demonstrations and debates rather than by withholding money. Such tight-fistedness would hurt primarily current and future students, who depend on alumni largess to subsidize the cost of a Harvard education. Refusing to contribute is just single-issue politics in an indirect and probably ineffective from...
Harvard reached the five-minute extra period mostly at the largess of the Big Red's Larry Oeding, who chose to miss the second of two free throws with two seconds remaining in regulation time...