Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follow a playwright's effort because he was a friend, like someone you take into your home because you are interested in him as a person--no matter what mood he's in or what he has to say. Anderson noted British audiences come closer to his idea. They tend to enjoy plays more for their own sake, he said, and not so much for their cocktail party value. Often the British will even go back to see a play a second time when someone new takes over a part whereas the American theater is likely to be empty once...
...Scythians, the Kushans, the White Huns, the Mongols of Genghis Khan and the Tatars of Tamerlane-only woe has come from across the River Oxus to the high plateaus and valleys where 12 million Afghans ride their horses and camels, herd their flocks, fight their feuds and tend their bazaars. The instinctive memory of it blew like a cooling wind across preparations for Afghanistan's latest invasion from the north, the visit of those part-time nomads, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev...
...business has grown bigger and more complex, it has become increasingly hard for executives to make decisions individually; more and more they tend to rely on conferences. Now many businessmen wonder whether management-by-conference has not been carried too far. Says a New York executive: "They keep you so busy 'familiarizing' you with the 'problems of the other fellow' that you don't have time to solve your own." A manager of a big Eastern manufacturing plant guesses that he spends 65% of his time in conferences. How much of it is usefully spent...
...Roses for Me does not show Sean O'Casey at his best, a conclusion which is on the whole quite justified. Even mediocre O'Casey, however, is superior to the best that most other contemporary playwrights have been able to produce, and many parts of Red Roses for Me tend to prove that the old Irishman is the greatest living play writer...
...likely to be an hour late getting to the office and an hour early leaving it. I'm one of those unfortunate men who have to have pressure to work well. So instead of efficiently spreading my work out and doing it on a schedule, I tend to let it pile up and do it all at once. I know it's terribly hard on my family and my staff, but it's too late to change now." Once a month he goes on a statewide radio-TV hookup to report on the $100 million-a-year...