Word: profitably
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land, although their garlic patches and herb gardens are now cultivated separately. They have signed a pact promising that if a family leaves the valley it will sell its home for only half of what it cost to build. If they do sell their land, they cannot make a profit. My contact there, the ex-wife of a Miami cousin, a not-so-active artist in her mid-thirties, seems not so much disillusioned with the community's failings as cheerfully resigned to its strengths and deeply satisfied with her hillside niche...
...desire to convert Hilles into a student center, and her more recent dissatisfaction with the Fox housing plan. With the help of Susan W. Lewis, assistant Dean of Freshmen, Charo and Kahn obtained funds from the Quad houses and the University, bought mugs and supplies, and opened the non-profit Brew. Give...
Newbury Street boasts the "nation's first gallery" (Doll & Richards, at No. 172), the oldest art society in America (Copley Society, No. 158) and the oldest non-profit organization in the U.S. (The Society of Arts and Crafts, No. 175). The galleries display old masters and contemporary art, sculpture and arts and crafts, photography and ethnic art. So what's there now? Here's a sampling...
Boozy Sessions. Schubert's Songs is not a how-to-do-it book, although musicians might profit from the author's insight. In discussing the song cycle Die Winterreise (Winter Journey), that stark "chain of variations on the theme of grief," the author notes a brightening of atmosphere brought about by a transition from the minor to major key. Singers beware, he warns: "Things seem less desperate-but Schubert is not finished yet. By reverting to the acerbity of the original minor mode during the postlude, he rules out any possibility of self-indulgence or sentimental self-pity...
...does not write about Boswell, who during these years publicly frequented the salons of London to make connections that would further his private political ambitions. Nor does he make any mention of the widespread 18th century practice of keeping diaries meant for publication, a private penchant performed for public profit...