Word: generous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kevin Conway paints a psychograph of Treves, each brush stroke subtler than the last, the kindest of healers plagued with the darkest of self-doubts. And Carole Shelley's Mrs. Kendal - curious, amused, emotionally generous - is a womanly oasis, and like the play itself, no mirage in a parched season. - T. E. Kalem
...from trade restrictions imposed by Washington. A 1974 statute sponsored by Senator Henry Jackson linked trade policy to the Kremlin's record on allowing its citizens, particularly Jews, to emigrate. The law in effect told the Soviets that if they would behave leniently then they would be eligible for generous credits to pay for American goods, and that their exports to the U.S. would benefit from the relatively lower tariffs imposed on most favored nations. Although their emigration policies have been relaxed somewhat, the U.S. continues to limit their credits, and they have not received most favored nation status...
...working? It will not be fully answered until the law has been in effect a year or two, but the experience of companies that changed their policies earl-or never did force retirement at 65-indicates that the numbers will be small. As companies have made retirement benefits more generous, the trend for decades has been toward earlier, not later retirement. For example, at Republic Steel Corp., which has never had mandatory retirement, less than 1% of the 40,000 workers stay on past 65; the average age of retirees is below...
Elliott, who actively published while he taught more than the required course load at Harvard, also found time to deal with students. "I remember him as generous and warm-hearted," Mansfield said, "and inspiring to the point of being frightening...
KENNETH BAKER, reviewing the "Cape Light" show for the Boston Phoenix, wrote that he was heartened by the photographs because they "put forward an idea of what it means to love the world." That they do. But the love they display is of the generous, uncritical kind that can ally itself all too easily with the aim and spirit of advertising. The not-quite-seduced viewer may be vexed by some of the work's resemblance to the color photography one sees most: the beguilingly resourceful and corrupt work appearing in magazines at the service of travel agencies, cosmetic manufacturers...