Word: name
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like parents who are objective about their children . . . Some parents consistently underrate their children, not realizing that their progeny may surpass them. Others . . . insist that their children must plan to go to a certain 'big-name' college, either because the parents attended there, or because they wish that they had . . . We like parents who let their children be themselves...
Then came the cajolery. "For example," reported Professor McMahon, "the Bishop of London read that his name would be associated with the building of the divinity school as Solomon's name was with the temple at Jerusalem . . . The Black Monks were . . . flatteringly, if untruthfully, told that 'in fact, the University owes its foundation...
...money came, the donor was lavishly thanked: "Your name was in every mouth; some wondered at your magnificence, some praised your exalted virtues . . . and indeed, that you are but mortal is our bitterest thought." But if, after the death of a longtime benefactor, no gift was forthcoming from his estate, Oxford's agents tried a sterner approach: they badgered the executors. Sometimes they hinted that the executors had misappropriated gifts meant for the university; sometimes they went to court...
...Drumbeats," originally the creation of the 70th Anniversary fund-raising campaign, was discontinued with the end of that drive last June. Council received permission to use the idea and name of the show from the Alumnae Fund office, along with promises of cooperation in carrying out the project...
...leaves for school, Gerald treats him to a fireworks display. After the last flares are gone, Gerald grips the boy's arm and Duncan feels "the current of some deep emotion pass from the man's body to his own." Though unable to give this emotion a name, Duncan senses that he has somehow been soiled by evil. At school, where he feels "as though virtue had gone out of him," he becomes a sneak thief and is expelled...