Word: lent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overblown. After allowing several antibusing Congressmen to score oratorical points for the folks back home, Celler turned to the most prominent of the amendment versions. As suggested by New York's first-term Republican Congressman Norman Lent, the amendment would provide that "no public school student shall, because of his race, creed or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school." Lent proved a weak witness; Virginia's conservative Republican Richard Poff, whom Nixon has wanted to nominate to the Supreme Court, questioned the ambiguity of the language. "I don't have the best...
This is where that relentless pursuit has finally led: straight over the cliff and into a sea where dream and reality merge with haunting fluidity. The most fantastic appearances are lent an ceric reality by celluloid and by the night. At night and on film, the huge painted sky shadowing Twentieth's "Western Town" (a sky which, by day, seems absurdly naive in its patent fakery) loses its hard edges and seems to soar up into the "real" sky. Its splashes of white cloud float free, lit by a moon whose own reality you cannot feel sure...
...Anderson, Steve Hobbs, David Moskowitz and Terry Valenzuela lent strong support to Harvard's undefeated fencers by taking two out of three contests apiece...
...strain of the sponsors' competition. In the 1950s, Austrian Ski Star Toni Sailer supposedly earned a modest $1,200 a year from advertising. Eventually he dropped out of competition after the International Ski Federation investigated his role in Sailer-Tex, an Italian textile firm to which he had lent his name. "I hoped that my leaving would be understood as a protest against the hypocrisy of the so-called amateur status," Sailer said recently. "But the situation has only become worse...
...third and great album was released last year, The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East (Capricorn). Long famous for their live performances, the Allman Brothers amply demonstrate on this double lp why they are considered by many to be the best white blues band in the world. Duane lent his talents to another monster album of 1971, Derek and the Dominoes (Atco), which also must be considered Eric Clapton's best effort in years. The tightly interwoven lead guitar work of Allman and Clapton, ranging from dense, driving chords to ultra-high register wailing, is a rock masterpiece and surely...