Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when none of the characters avoids two-dimensional typicality. Clara, particularly, as the martyred Working Woman, displays ludicrous malleability in her metamorphosis from Cinderella to Princess at the caprice of the plot. All the romantic music, charming mountain cafes, melting glances and scenic forest idylls De Sica produces cannot lend authenticity to this melodrama, so that the inevitable denouncement is devoid of pathos...
...political controversies that have improperly engrossed the department's energy, simultaneously feels that the Houses are now on the decline. "There is a weaker attachment to the Houses than there used to be. The faculty used to enjoy the attachment. It was an amorphous thing, but it did lend something to student-faculty relations. The change may be a by-product of 1969--the habit of getting to the Houses regularly may have been broken. There is a problem in maintaining momentum...
...former Saigon lawyer, has been chairman of the N.L.F. since 1960. His main function, however, apparently is to lend credence by his presence to the Communists' claim that the front and the P.R.G. actually are coalitions in which power is shared with nonCommunists. Mrs. Binh was the Viet Cong's chief negotiator in Paris and is one of the movement's most visible and best-publicized representatives. But Western analysts believe that the real power in the P.R.G. is wielded by Phat, a former architect who was the N.L.F.'s vice chairman and chief theoretician...
...even if simple maintenance is not sacrificed, rent control can hurt housing quality in subtler ways. Banks are normally unwilling to lend to prospective builders in rent controlled communities. In Cambridge, there is no incentive under rent control to make capital improvements such as kitchen modernization or any major renovation. Burned buildings are left to rot; renovation simply isn't worthwhile under rent control. Even if George Sternlieb's picture of housing deterioration is somewhat exaggerated. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that rent control's discouragement of both new construction and renovation must lead to a progressive outmoding...
...Canada asking for information about learning-exchange systems. Meanwhile, Detzel and Lewis have earned praise from the educational establishment. Says B.J. Chandler, dean of Northwestern's school of education: "The formal educational system is groaning under the load put on it. We've got to lend our support to this kind of alternative...