Word: reclaim
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...Today the boss still keeps a close eye out for the problem drinker, but it is more often to help than to fire him. Faced with new understanding of alcoholism as a mental illness-and with a nationwide shortage of trained workers-more and more companies are trying to reclaim the problem drinker for productive work...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra opened its season yesterday afternoon with an outstanding concert at Sanders Theatre. Under the leadership of conductor Attilio Poto, the orchestra performed a well-chosen program with unusual competence. The strings this year reclaim their position as the dominant section of the orchestra, restoring the balance which was so sorely lacking last year, and greatly improving the overall tone...
...Germany's Minister to Portugal sent an encouraging telegram to his boss in Berlin, Foreign Minister and ex-champagne salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Duke of Windsor, Britain's ex-King Edward VIII, it said, was ready and eager to return home with his American wife to reclaim the throne of Britain for both of them. To bring this about, the message went on, there were two possibilities: either England would urge him to come back, which Windsor considered entirely possible, or Germany would express the desire to negotiate with him. In either case, the minister concluded, Windsor...
...because it slipped by the critics relatively unnoticed. The Horton Foote adaptation of his 1954 play, which made a star out of Kim, was pared down by some 40 minutes for TV but lost little of its tenuous, dreamlike quality. As a homely, stammering drudge who is trying to reclaim her no-account husband just out of jail, Actress Stanley gave a sunlit performance. Like a hand picking up broken glass, she limned her character with tentative little twitches, awkward hesitations and mute expectancy. For TV's dramatic ladies, the unhappy score at the end of their week...
...plot, publicized by the film The Last Time I Saw Paris, involves a man who sowed quite a few wild oats during the stock market boom. He returns after the death of his wife to reclaim his daughter from his sister-in-law, who blames him for his wife's death. Seven-year-old Rachel Whitman is most fetching and unaffected as the young daughter. Phyllis Ferguson is completely believable as the sister-in-law, mixing resentment for her toiling and skimping with a warmth and tenderness. James Stinson plays her sympathetic husband with suitable low pressured earnestness. Roger Moldovan...