Word: lended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London, the Wilson government, which has been counting on an American-led world recovery to help get Britain moving again, was profoundly distressed. If New York defaults, said a high Whitehall official, "it's bound to make American banks less willing to lend, and public authorities less willing to spend." The London Times called Ford's policy "an act of monumental folly." Editorialized the Times: "It is no exaggeration to say that for the financial system of the United States, for the reputation of that country, and for the rest of the non-Communist industrial world, it could...
Almost from the moment the curtain goes up, one feels that one is browsing in a library, which, in the theater, is the dramatic equivalent of dozing off. To begin with, the story does not lend itself to a willing suspension of disbelief. The setting is a Polish ghetto town about a century ago. Yentl (Tovah Feldshuh) is an extremely bright girl who relishes reading and discussing the Talmud and the Torah with her learned father. It is strictly taboo for a Jewish woman to be studying these sacred texts. Yentl is precocious and prone to dispute with her elders...
Solano insists that, given his views on rent control and the fact that he would lend first-hand expertise on the problems of the elderly in the city, he should have been endorsed by the Cambridge Convention. But this...
...Marcello of the New Orleans Mafia and Jimmy Hoffa, both under investigation by Attorney General Robert Kennedy '48, anti-Castro elements in Florida, those who suspected that the President was wavering in his commitment to South Vietnam, and Lyndon Johnson. These sorts of charges, lacking the necessary circumstantial evidence, lend credence to charges that Sale is just another left-wing paranoid kook...
...play traps its four characters on a Greyhound bus. and each character is leaving behind a forgettable past, while moving toward some future just as bleak. This kind of atmosphere doesn't exactly lend itself to dramatic action; the play is more a series of monologues spliced onto each other with cement of dubious quality (one character rambles on, then concludes with a key word that the next character picks...