Word: endower
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...Kresge Foundation has given $600,000 to endow a faculty chair at the Harvard Business School...
...BUTTER AND EGG MAN first opened in 1925, and is the only play that George S. Kaufman ever wrote without a collaborator. This show-biz saga sags a bit now, and the lines are scarcely howlers, but period costumes and an able, loving cast endow it with innocent nostalgia...
...Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN first opened in 1925 and is the only play that George S. Kaufman ever wrote without a collaborator. This show-biz saga sags a bit now, and the lines are scarcely howlers, but period costumes and an able, loving cast endow it with innocent nostalgia...
...somehow not un-Jewish-not that any of them really gave much of a damn about being Jewish. Then anger turned to consternation when it developed that Mama was really planning the most Jewish act of her life: under the benign influence of Mr. Ellenbogan, Mama was going to endow an Israeli university with a great chunk of the family fortune...
Unhappily, the film too often has that very effect on the onlooker. True, Michael Caine (The Ipcress File) plays the sodding little spiv with a raucous charm that makes Alfie seem more interesting than he actually is. And it is also true that the script struggles loyally to endow Alfie with humor and humanity. After the friend's wife undergoes an abortion-a scene that takes place off-camera but was only with reluctance approved by the Valenti office-Alfie stares in horror at the unseen fetus of his unborn son. The audience is clearly expected to conclude that...