Word: lavishness
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Throughout his lifetime, Lehman was lavish with money. His charitable contributions to such groups as United Jewish Appeal, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, and a host of child welfare organizations were classic. In 1960 he gave $500,000 toward a children's zoo in Manhattan's Central Park...
...home mortgages and apartment rents. All blue-collar employees and their families are covered by national health insurance. If they are permanently disabled, on or off the job, the government provides a pension for life, and funeral benefits are handsome enough to make the German way of death fairly lavish...
Monday, December 2 HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A look at the lavish musicals...
...ARTS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC by Jean Guiart. 461 pages. Golden Press. $25. This is Volume IV of the extraordinary "museum without walls" proposed by Andre Malraux and sponsored by the French government, which will eventually run to 40 volumes encompassing the whole of man's arts. Lavish in its illustrations, the present volume catches all the expressive, primitive power of Oceanic art while detailing its surprising variety and the age-old magic, mythic and ritualistic impulses that fostered it. A reader pondering its carved canoes and implements, its funerary and fertility figures and its grotesquely surrealistic ceremonial masks...
...lavish feast described by Petronius in a fragment of the Satyricon, a penetrating report of social life in the days of Nero. Trimalchio, the host, was a wealthy freedman with more farms "than a kite could flap over," and so many slaves that "not one in ten has ever seen his master...