Word: tenderer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator Edward Kennedy confesses that he has always been "terribly squeamish" about illness. But, determined that son Teddy will have tender care, he plans to take on a nurse's role. The boy will need chemotherapeutic injections for a time to ward off a recurrence of the cancer that necessitated amputation of his leg last November. Doctors suggested that a nurse visit the Kennedy home, but the Senator demurred. Instead, he is learning to wield the needle himself so that he can give the painful and unsettling treatments and help allay the boy's fears...
...from America." It's about the visit to an old couple from their American son, gone so long and changed so much that his parents can't recognize him at first, and it seems to say that under the right circumstances it's possible at least to imagine tender change, change that lets its subjects love each other and themselves, so that the one certainty in Singer's world can sometimes be a happy...
Hughes became interested in Air West, which was in financial difficulty, in 1968. He was opposed by a faction on the board of directors who insisted that Hughes' tender offer of $22 per share was too low. Indeed, even after stockholders approved a sellout to Hughes at that price, the board voted 13 to 11 to refuse. At that point, the Government charges, Hughes and his cronies put into motion their strategy...
Unfortunately, as the current revival by Manhattan's Phoenix Repertory Company shows, Barry was not quite up to the company he tried to keep. He lacked Coward's dry crystal tone, Porter's slyly sexy urban ennui, Fitzgerald's tender romantic imagination and Shaw's intellect. Barry's plays are a little like cocktail parties that have begun to wind down, leaving the guests more prone to hysteria than hilarity...
...music, Britten has also in recent years given us fascinating interpretations of other composers' work −notably the Mozart G Minor Symphony and the Bach Brandenburg Concertos. The neglected Fairy Queen-half opera half masque-is perhaps his finest effort: vibrantly joyous, magisterial in its command yet tender in the plaints of the soloists (especially Bass John Shirley-Quirk's Next, winter comes slowly...