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Raymond Carver was only 50 when he died, in 1988, of lung cancer. Those who knew him personally mourned, and continue to mourn, the loss of a warm and generous friend, a man whose hard early life--periods of dead-end jobs and poverty, severe alcoholism--had somehow made him gentle. Readers aware of him only from his books have missed him too, for Carver had, during the 12 years preceding his death, virtually reinvented the American short story...
Robert B. Slater, managing editor for the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, said the high rate can be attributed to Harvard's generous financial aid system and large endowment...
...wrong: Clinton was better to comedians than any other President in the 20th century. Most Presidents give you one good hook--Ford fell off airplanes, Reagan made a movie with a chimp, Carter owned a peanut farm. But Clinton was wildly generous to the comedic mind. In 1992 he served up an exotic tapas buffet of premises that included his saxophone, his too-short jogging shorts, his light-switch "sincerity" and his McDonald's fetish. And as we began hungrily digging in, he emerged with a hearty stew of Gennifer Flowers, "I didn't inhale" and Whitewater...
...mind. I ended up at the same acting school he had attended, and in 1960 we did a TV movie of the play that had made him famous, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh. We hit it off right off the bat, and he was extremely generous to me. In the play, when his character meets mine, he says, "We're members of the same lodge--in some way." Because of our personal connection, he invested that moment pretty heavily, and I'll never forget the line...
...return his generosity, and it was wonderful to watch how he nailed the character of Ben Bradlee. He was a consummate actor, almost the last of a breed. He was tortured, and he carried that with him and used it beautifully. He was also incredibly warmhearted and generous. One of the bright spots of my career is having met and worked with...