Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aristocrats make just awful tyrants, admitted that fairest-minded of Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville. But at their best, he insisted, "they rarely entertain groveling thoughts; and they show a kind of haughty contempt for petty pleasures, even when they indulge in them...
...lesson of Love Story's incredible success lies in its ties to romanticism, in its simple?and simple-minded?refusal to swing, in its ability to entertain. That it seems to herald a return to old-fashioned film making is not necessarily bad news for new film makers. In a dying industry, there is no room for anyone; in a boom town, everybody works. Love Story can only bring grief if it is treated like a new I Sound of Music, the film that was responsible for such trendy megaton disasters as Sweet Charity, On a Clear Day and Paint...
...Certainly the Huskies entertain no great visions of an upset. Despite having a 3-0 record, UConn must be aware that it has much ground to make up to overtake Harvard. Last year at Storrs, Conn., the Crimson varsity and freshmen both won by 66-29 scores...
Starting in September, the HCEP would entertain proposals from undergraduates in its House, from a??graduate student in the University, and from professors in any of the Harvard Faculties. Each Intensive Study proposal would outline the content and method of a course or project to last from three to four weeks in the following January, meeting six or more hours a week. The proposal would indicate who is to be responsible for the direction of the Intensive Study-it may be a student, a professor, or someone from outside the University...
Ring of Truth. Peeling off the surgical mask, Nolen reveals the semi-deity behind it as a bundle of human wiles and failings. In passages that entertain as well as shock, he tells how he and his colleagues frightened patients' families into giving blood-not to save their loved ones, but to fill the bank for others. He explains why so few patients were recorded as having died on the operating table: to avoid paper work, the doctors quietly sewed up the corpses and let them "die" after surgery...