Word: entertainer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main pastime still seems to be memory-as it is in all villages, Southern or otherwise, where people lead lives of work and family. Stop most anyone you see-they're generally stoppable-and he or she will soon be spinning you a web of recollection to entertain you both. They tend to start with Carters, since that's why you're here; but soon they'll show you a crowd of human reasons for stopping at this wide spot in the road and listening well, even if Jimmy had been born in Savannah...
...integrity and academic excellence. It made a deeper impression on me than did my childhood." Kreps took her advanced degrees in economics at Duke. There she met her husband Clifton, now a professor of banking at the nearby University of North Carolina. The couple, married for 32 years, frequently entertain students at home but rarely venture out for other parties...
...singer who used to entertain the towel-clad clientele at Manhattan's gay Continental Baths, Bette Midler can look forward to at least a dressier audience this January at the New York State Theater. Belting Bette is scheduled to appear there with the New York City Ballet in a new production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Seven Deadly Sins. Celebrated Choreographer George Balanchine chose her to play the lead role of the peripatetic showgirl Annie, a part created in 1933 by Weill's widow Lotte Lenya. Why? "She has a good voice...
...thoughts, ordinarily ice, turn to water when I entertain political ideas (which do not entertain me). This is bad enough. But I frown when I must mingle with these unwelcome guests; words impressed into public roles are stained with brutality, lose their invisibilities, and are no longer parts of the actual brain. So I must divert attention from my innocent poem; but then I am hopelessly confused how to accomplish my other purpose...
Another skating rink in town, the Boston Garden, will also be the scene of some action this weekend. The amazing Bruins, led by Peter McNab, will entertain the Washington Capitals Thursday night and the Detroit Red-wings Sunday night...