Word: lended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studying or whatever they did. We didn't identify with them. When Harvard men voiced that age old complaint that conversation at the Radcliffe dining tables was vapid or boring we didn't rise to the defense of Radcliffe conversation, nor I might add, did we ever attempt to lend our own scintillating conversational gifts to Radcliffe dining halls. We were always the first people within earshot to agree. And so it was natural that The Crimson didn't cover Radcliffe and thus didn't cover-women very much at a time when some very interesting and very important things...
Moratorium. Bankers still have money to lend, but builders are reading the signs and cutting back construction of apartment houses in favor of single-family homes, townhouses and condominiums, all of which are still filling up rapidly. As a result, builders expect to get down to a rate of starts-still among the fastest in history-that can be sustained for years to come. Marriages are expected to average 2,200,000 a year through the 1970s, v. 1,800,000 annually in the 1960s, and each wedding creates a new family that is a prospective buyer or renter...
...have to be Jewish to like Leo Rosten." Where else, after all, could the one-liner addict of whatever persuasion be exposed to a barrage of ecstasy that includes the following punches: "May all your teeth drop out, except one-so you should have a permanent toothache." "If you lend someone money, and he avoids you you've gotten off cheap." "A man is not honest just because he has had no chance to steal." "Sleep faster, we need the pillows...
Elaine May shares with John Cassavetes a consuming affection for people, foibles and all. She is superb at discovering little incidents or bits of business that take the taint of caricature off a scene and lend it immediacy: a plump lady, a member of the first wedding party, turning her right hip ever so slightly to edge down the aisle; or Lenny, at the second wedding, grinning briefly in involuntary triumph at the minister. May does tend to stress Lenny's obtuseness, his blind selfishness, rather too much. But The Heartbreak Kid survives its faults; indeed it seems almost...
Patience does not lend itself easily to greatness. The social satire of Gilbert and Sullivan fades with every passing year, like a tintype of some long forgotten grandparent. The comedy of manners that is Patience with its mild jabs at the military and the intellectual alike seems pale and watered-down today. The genius of G&S, when it appears in the show is only a shadow of the inspiration of Mikado or lolanthe Gaylin and Huessy have exploited every possible moment of great theater in the show and forced Patience to be memorable...