Word: lende
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...This land," the late Jack B. Yeats once said, "is full to the brim of all things that lend themselves best to pictorial memories." The land was Ireland, and no man ever painted its dancing skies and robustly sentimental people with greater insight or exuberance. Today, the fame of Poet-Brother William Butler Yeats has partly eclipsed his own, but if Jack Yeats is less known than he deserves, it is largely his own doing. He refused to have his paintings reproduced during his lifetime, exhibited rarely and reluctantly. Last week, four years after his death...
...plight of Antoine Doinel could easily lend itself to appalling pathos, but Truffaut (who also wrote the screenplay) has scrupulously avoided this danger. Child-like comic effects predominate in many scenes, particularly those without adults; and realizing that in spite of his trials Dolnel can still behave like a happy and naive little boy, the viewer is made acutely aware of the wide gulf between the child and the adult. The film thus evokes a sense of frustration rather than pity...
...Home Cooking. The success is known "by the company that keeps him." The most significant part of that company is the idea man, the resident genius. Fortunately, the man of genius is both gullible and tractable: "When a success drops back to lend the genius a helping hand-and offers, for the sake of simplicity, to go fifty-fifty for life-it looks an act of unparalleled generosity. It never occurs to the genius that he is entitled to more than 50% of himself. Don't shout at him or utter threats or tell him who's boss...
Since the field does not lend itself to controlled experiments, such as are used in the physical and biological sciences too many economists spend their time arguing about ideas, rather than trying to prove or disprove them. They "spend most of their time debunking each other's welfare projects," she charged...
...Since last October, cadres (party functionaries) and white-collar workers by the tens of millions have found themselves reassigned to work on the land. Picks and shovels on their shoulders, professors lead their students, officers their men, bureaucrats their bookkeepers-all of them on the march to lend a hand, physically, on the 'production front...