Word: entertained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many years before the U.S. elects a black President-or, for that matter, a Mexican-American President or a Korean-American President. But it now becomes thinkable for a black child to entertain a fantasy that used to be advertised as every white boy's dream: that he might grow up to be President...
...narrow focus on tutors' intellectual qualities. Assistant Dean for the House System Thomas A. Dingman '67 says that because "tutors are teachers," the College looks for academic excellence before social skills, or, as Bossert says, Lowell House looks primarly for "great intellectuals. We don't select tutors primarily to entertain the students of participate in intramural sports--though that is an important way in meet students--the emphasis here is not on the rah-rah college thing...
Long Day's Journey Into Night is one of O'Neill's greatest plays--intricate, jarring and painfully honest. The play does not delight or entertain, but rather distresses the audience with an intimate look at the self-destructive network of O'Neill's own family...
...Jeffrey Korn is lively and hysterically funny as Zerlina's rather slow-witted betrothed, Masetto Along with junior Dominic A. A. Randolph, who plays Giovanni's faithful yet knowing servant Leporella. Korn provides the comic relief for the melodramatic intricacy of the opera. Randolph's Leporella never fails to entertain the audience, whether he is describing his master's terrible ways or whether he is cavorting about the stage, helping his master escape from the other characters. Randolph's stage presence is superb and he becomes the show's most endearing character, as he provides most of the opera...
...Elles-borough last week concentrated on the evils of wealth, but at least one member of the congregation, Mark Thatcher, 30, may have been distracted. The son of Britain's Prime Minister was visiting Chequers, the P.M.'s country estate, so that Dad and Mum could entertain his new American girlfriend, Karen Fortson, 24. She is the daughter of Ben Fortson, a Fort Worth oil magnate, and murmurings from both families suggest that a match may be entirely suitable. For the Fortsons, a Thatcher might be the next best catch to British royalty. And with Mark...