Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raised by a disclosure last week that Fortas had accepted $15,000 for 18 hours of summer-school teaching at American University's law school. Though some other Justices accept fees, there is an ethical question about whether they should. What aggravates the question of Fortas' particularly generous fee is that it was donated by five big businessmen who some day may well have matters of interest come before the court...
...advisor for his Ph.D. thesis, felt that the man was best in small tutorial groups, and that in these situations Brinton retained an informal yet critical style. As one colleague put it: "Crane Brinton, besides having a lively and wide ranging mind, was one of the kindest and most generous men I have ever known. He viewed the world with a genial skeptcism that permitted him to judge with humane indulgence the foibles of his fellow...
...Harvard freshman I was an innocent rationalist and Wilsonian Democrat. Even while I was an undergraduate, and with the generous enthusiasm of my tutor Harold Laski to fortify me, the influence of the late Irving Babbitt began to undermine the foundations of that belief...
...means a family of innkeepers, the Pritzkers rely on good managers who are paid generous stock options and bonuses to make them "think like owners." Still, the Pritzkers are skilled operators. Abram, now 72, first discovered the family touch back in the Depression, when he found that he could make more money dabbling in real estate than laboring with the law. Leaving legal chores to subordinates (among them: Arthur Goldberg), Abram tended to business. He bought into, among other things, Chicago's appliance-making Cory Corp., which he served as chairman until last year, when Hershey Foods Corp. acquired...
Perhaps Crane's greatest misfortune was to be born in the U.S. of the 1890s. In a later, more generous age, he could undoubtedly have earned enough money to live well-probably even enough to keep his devoted but high-living mistress in style in the English manor house they occupied before his last illness. As it was, when the tree-blasting lightning struck, he went placidly and obediently, his dog Sponge at his bedside, fully aware, as Willa Gather once said, that "all his life was a preparation for sudden departure...