Word: lended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play, he turns to Joey, reminds him of their past creative relations, to which Joey replies. "I know. But those were in the days when you still taught. Now you spread futility, Ben." And Butley's importance lies, ultimately, in its subtle ability to lend an understanding of this perhaps too familiar academic frustration and surrender, a sympathetic view of the suicide of the mind...
...rarely took the offensive, even when his armies were numerically superior to the Japanese. General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell kept pressing Chiang to reorganize his army and be more aggressive. But Chiang had different priorities than his impatient American advisers; he felt it necessary to conserve his men and his Lend-Lease arms for use against the Communists after the Japanese surrender when, he foresaw, there would be an inescapable struggle for control...
...tribe of Kennedy cousins, the aunts and uncles, according to a family friend, "never know when they talk to Jackie whether it will be a week or a year before they hear from her again." Senator Edward Kennedy did make the trip to Skorpiós to lend the widow some support, but it is unlikely that his gesture signals Jackie's return to the fold...
...courage failed, but ago does lend a certain bravado in the face of anticipated rejection...
Apparently she was recruited to lend a little weight to a mean, shallow and indifferent enterprise. The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a listless nervous-breakdown farce, adapted by Neil Simon from his play about the traumas and indignities of living in Manhattan. Jack Lemmon, unwired and wrung out, appears as an lid executive who loses his job and proceeds to crack under all the usual New York tensions, from unruly cab drivers to walls that crack like eggshells, from vicious neighbors to violence in Central Park. Bancroft plays his wife, loving and impatient and reasonably brave, who sees...