Word: lended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Look, No Thumbs. Within that narrow range of new time, there is some evidence that the networks are at least beginning to make an effort-still overly modest-at providing something better, with varied success. CBS has called on Walter Cronkite to lend both maturity and reality to some of its children's programming. He will preside over the revival of a 1950s favorite, now aimed at junior audiences: You Are There. This series dramatizes historical events in the form of on-the-spot interviews by television correspondents. The first episode last week, "The Ordeal of a President," dealt...
...doomed to fail. Grendel lays waste to Hereot, carves lines of care in Hrothgar's face. He reveals the priests as fools and hypocrites. He pelts with apples a futile existential hero who vainly keeps asserting that he can lend life meaning through heroic action. Nothing works. Grendel's victims perversely take these random torments as signs of divine and purposeful displeasure. They obstinately go on fooling themselves that man can shape the world. Years pass. Grendel grows bored. When Beowulf comes, powerfully secure in his delusions and with the grip of a steam shovel, it is almost...
...leading the American League's Western Division by 14 full games. Backstopping Blue, Oakland has one of the league's strongest trios of starting pitchers: Chuck Dobson (12-2), Catfish Hunter (14-10) and, coming back after an injury, Blue Moon Odom (7-8). Rollie Fingers and Mudcat Grant lend further color to the A's roster of unusual names?and authority to their bullpen. At the plate, Third Baseman...
...major move in the area of warranties. Starting with the 1972 models, the company will pay for the repair of all defects during the first twelve months or 12,000 miles of use-an improvement on the usual tightly restricted list of warranty-covered parts. A.M.C. even promises to lend its customers cars while their own autos are being worked...
More likely, however, the trip is intended to upgrade the Agnew image. After his abrasive appearances on the U.S. banquet circuit, distance may lend Agnew the aura of an American statesman. Then, too, there is not much for Agnew to do at home just now. Summer months are slim ones on the political fund-raising circuit...