Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Kennedy's assasination, his brother Robert F. Kennedy '48, chair of the Kennedy Library Corporation, decided to endow a new center for the study of politics and government. Pusey persuaded Kennedy to establish the Institute of Politics within the GSPA, and the school was renamed the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The moniker broke the University's long-standing policy of not naming any school after a person...
Andrew also favors a traditional wedding script. Charles vowed to "share" his wealth with his bride, but Andrew will undertake to hand his over, declaring, "With all my worldly goods, I thee endow." Inevitably, there is speculation about whether Fergie or Andrew is getting the better deal...
...contrast to most money drives which rely on large donations, the HURI has raised funds from a large pool of Ukrainians on a nickel-and-dime basis. Several years ago, more than 15,000 members of the Ukrainian community raised $1.8 million to endow three University chairs for Ukrainian language, literature and history...
...often have delusions of omnipotence, and perhaps adult megalomania derives from that, with a sinister admixture of the child's spirit of play and exhibitionism. As the economist Robert Heilbroner wrote, "Analysis finds . . . that even after the child separates the world outside from the world within, he continues to endow outside things with the magical property of being part of himself. To put it differently, he sees his personality as contagious, shedding something of itself on objects of importance. His possessions are part of his self...
...fourth voice (a "recurrent scream of disorder," writes Sullivan), Katharine Andrews does very little to endow her part with the quirky originality in tone and movement with which the other performances spoil...