Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional music. Although the band plays the medley on side one cleanly, and although the music sounds impressive, it is not on a par with the rest of the album. The transitions between pieces in the medley are not smooth, and the thematic connections are not clear enough to lend the the medley a sense of unity. The medley on side two, however, is a strong, well-planned cut with good transitions throughout. While the drums and electric bass prevent it from merely imitating Irish traditional music, the piece remains true to the feel of the Gaelic sound...
Before I give you this week's winners, does anybody have a stamp they could lend...
...right and what is wrong, however loose the criteria may be. In no one is Pinero's point better epitomized than in Juan (Jose Perez), a stocky Puerto Rican who stands alone as the only inmate to rise to Short Eye's defense before the other prisoners and to lend him an ear, if admittedly not the most sympathetic one. The fact that Juan and the other prisoners strongly react to Short Eyes dramatizes Pinero's theme, even if the prisoners take diametrically opposed views of him. Where sheer indifference may have been expected, naked emotion flows...
Pepper was a strong supporter of Roosevelt's progressive legislative programs. He pushed for the creation of lend-lease and became an early advocate of American preparedness-through compulsory military service-against Germany. Pepper's liberal domestic record and his sympathy for the war-battered Russians made him the target of right-wingers in 1950. In a McCarthy era Senate campaign against his former protege, George Smathers, he was branded "Red" Pepper and a "spellbinding pinko...
...something we must learn to accept, as some of us must learn to accept such happier but equally haphazard gifts-a brief romance, a sweet spring day. The comparison here must be to Love Story, in which mortality was dragged onstage-like Lord Olivier making a cameo appearance-to lend spurious dignity to an otherwise tacky enterprise...