Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different." i.e., to be what U.S. tradition calls "individualistic" or nonconformist, what orthodoxy dubs heretical, what psychiatry calls neurotic, what some men in the street call plain cracked. Author Wallace agrees with Mill that "eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded," and then with tender gaiety proceeds to profile a handful of the most eccentric eccentrics...
First of the series of evening stage presentations was Gian-Carlo Menotti's opera "The Consul," given four times. Menotti's best work, though musically uneven, it ranks with Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and Copland's "The Tender Land" as one of the three finest operas to come out of this country. "The Consul" demonstrates an unerring sense of theatre in its almost unrelievedly anguished tale of Magda Sorel's attempt to get out of a bureaucratic country crawling with secret police, and its tragic results--a timely story in view of recent events in Hungary...
...beautiful friendship gets thicker and thicker. The marshal displays a tender concern for his friend's health, nags him about his drinking, clucks about his tubercular cough. In the end. Doc staggers up from his deathbed and reels out "to die with the only friend I ever had.'' They both survive, and in the moment conventionally occupied by the clinch, the two heroes stand face to face. In a voice charged with emotion, the marshal says: "I just wantcha ta know I'd a never made it withoutcha." And as he drags himself off to join...
...then, neither have the stage and cinema. In adapting Fitzgerald's frail short story Winter Dreams for last week's Playhouse go over CBS, Emmy Winner James P. Cavanagh came close to Fitzgerald's mood without sticking to Fitzgerald's theme. The play retained the tender struggle of the central characters, but juggled scenes and dialogue to capture the nuances of the separate worlds that preoccupied Fitzgerald-the middle class of "proud, desirous" Dexter Green and the cashmere-on-the-golf-links security of Judy Jones, whom Dexter saw always "in a soft deep summer room...
...addition to the strict regulations on tender of aid, the colleges and the athletes are placed under many other regulations, which carry penalties of possible loss of eligibility or loss of scholarship aid. Coaches and athletic staff members are not allowed to discuss matters of financial aid with applicants except in campus interviews or in correspondence. Between the time the tender of aid is sent out and the time the student accepts it in writing, no coach or other college employee is allowed to have any contact with him. And any falsification in filling out the Financial aid forms...