Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radcliffe, then seventeen years old, merited two chapters, one written by Arthur Gilman, "Regent of the College." Even then, Martha Trimble Bennett, (probably a student) admitted, "Life at Radcliffe does not lend itself easily to description." The 'Cliffe seemed to be a dull place-- "there are no picturesque details which can be seized upon," Bennett reported. "A large number of the students live at home," so there was "none of the gay dormitory life which is so distinctive a feature at most women's colleges." An atmosphere of "thought and study invests Radcliffe," Bennett wrote, but "no girl is proud...
...usual explanation is that audiences won't support the old sort of programming any more. Box-office failures over the past couple of years seem to lend some support to this theory. It's hard to show Bresson, or even Godard, these days, according to St. George (who occasionally sneaks a good film that he thinks won't sell onto a double bill at the Brattle). But there's been a change in the attitude of the schedulers, too. Larry Jackson, manager of the Orson Welles, thinks the old schedules at the Welles were "academic," and over the last three...
...Conversation is a film of enormous enterprise and tension. It also gains, because of Watergate, an added timeliness, but it does not depend on it. More than anything, it is a film about moral paralysis, a subject that does not need headlines to lend it importance...
...accounting division in the office of administration is a CPA. The new chief of the office of administration, Robert James, a former management consultant, is computerizing employee records and the previous year's expenditures-detailed accounts of which have never been kept. Bond has asked Missouri companies to "lend" executives for up to six months to study state administration and make recommendations; so far 41 executives have volunteered...
...jugglers, announcers, entertainers and comedians, whose problems have no relation to ours.") The Nixon White House regarded him as a special thorn, and internal memorandums depicted him as a paradigm of the influential journalists who badgered the Administration. Further criticism followed his decision-after retiring from the program-to lend his anchor man's cachet to airline commercials. As board chairman and promoter of Big Sky, a planned $20 million Montana resort area, Huntley was attacked by conservationists...