Word: chummed
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...Snowdons' circle of friends narrowed, Margaret called an old chum in Scotland one day in 1973 and announced she was coming for the weekend. There she met Roddy Llewellyn...
Says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, an old Moynihan chum: "The capacity of Harvard to make people feel vulnerable is Incredible, and I think Pat felt that quite keenly. He felt demeaned by having to establish his liberal credentials, pulling out his origins, his work with the Great Society programs. It was the same with the blacks issue. He knows what it's like to be desperately poor; he is a man of very lowly origins, lower than most of the black intellectuals who attacked...
...dominant person in the first half of the play is King Leontes (Donald Madden), whose consuming jealousy leads him to accuse his visiting boyhood chum King Polixenes (Jack Ryland) of fathering the child his innocent wife Hermione (Maria Tucci) is about to bring into the world. Many people have complained that we are not given the full background and unfolding of Leontes's jealousy. But Shakespeare had already written Othello and there was no need for him to write that play all over again. His purpose here is quite different...
...only launched repeated terrorist attacks across the border, but has also built a series of airstrips and naval ports close to the truce line. Recently he shifted two fully armored divisions to positions close to the DMZ. "There has been a change up North," notes Professor Kim Chum Kon, director of the Institute of Security and International Affairs in Seoul. A well-known critic of the Park government, Kim warns that the North "is moving away from a defensive posture" and is "shifting toward the offensive...
...Essendine, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. emphasizes the childish charm of his old chum Coward. Theatrically, this is a wise decision. The slightest stress on what can only be called the sadomasochistic implications of Essendine's relationships with his clan could easily spoil the evening. It is much better to let the unbitter truthfulness of the writing steal over one later. Excepting Fairbanks and George Pentecost as a comically clumsy young playwright, the cast, which includes Jane Alexander and Ilka Chase, never quite achieves the sense of giddy weightlessness that a Coward comedy should have. Still, the players at least sense...