Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan dinner to receive the Thomas A. Dooley Foundation award for being a Splendid American of "forthrightness, honesty, integrity," Sinatra found the other Splendid American, Spiro T. Agnew, playing it cool. The two friends arrived separately, supped separately, departed separately. It was left to Judy Agnew to entertain her husband's old Palm Springs, Calif., host and golfing crony...
Anyone who had begun to entertain a shadow of a doubt about the abilities of Harvard's heavyweight crew coach Harry Parker only had to watch the finals of Olympic crew competition in Munich last summer to once again become a firm believer in Parker's invincibility...
...song and dance routines) and to represent the forces the women fight against. The music-hall element, though it does smooth the transitions between song and speech, also expected to connect a compelling but rather unwieldy storyline. The strain is too much, and the actors are so anxious to entertain (for that is the thrust of the routines) that they aren't convincing as the chauvinists they really...
THERE'S SOMETHING about calling a song "Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired." It's leading. Critics jump at the chance to be witty, and this is a chance to glibly toss off an entire album and entertain your readers at the same time. Trouble is, Traffic's newest, Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory isn't. Uninspired, that is. It's just a shade better than Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, and, while it's not real innovative, compared to, say, Mr. Fantasy in 1967-68, it certainly cements Steve Winwood's reconstruction of the form fusion that made...
...Harvard education behind him, including lots of Latin and Greek and a course or two under Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A lifelong bachelor, Alger was rather disastrously prone to the unintentional double-entendre -e.g., "Imogene laid herself out to entertain him." But he was also capable of modestly cynical repartee: "When a man gets to be 51, marriage is very hazardous." "It always...