Word: befriend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Irwin, he is one of the most winsome presences in the American theater. In the sketchbook Largely New York, which opened on Broadway last week, he wears a top hat and spectacles, carries a white cane and resembles an elongated Jiminy Cricket. All around him are people he might befriend, if only he could break through their obsessive isolation with entertainment machines -- a Walkman, a boom box, a video camera, a TV monitor. Irwin himself carries a remote control, purportedly hooked up to the tiers of curtains onstage and the sound system that sporadically blares Tea for Two while...
Still, Jerry's outbursts are often funny, particularly his 20-minute monologue about his efforts to kill--and later to befriend--his landlady's vicious dog. O'Keefe gives Jerry violent mood swings that make him both scary and funny, perhaps too funny, since Oleson's Peter tends to look more bemused than horrified...
...house masters next week should keep in mind that any ceilings would restrict students' choice. It's time they realized that undergraduates are mature adults who can make their own decisions about where they want to live and who they want to befriend...
...they operate on the meritocratic principle. What needs to be guarded against in the great universities is a more insidiousism, aristocratism. Like it or not, universities are at some level credential factories. They serve as a springboard for middle and lower-class individuals not only to live with and befriend those of the privileged classes--which is at least as important for the sake of the latter--but also to join them, eventually, in running this country...
...Economics of Disaster: An introduction into the wonders of insider information, the course would examine the mechanics of the first-aid market, offer detailed models of how small third-world countries select first-aid manufacturers with special attention on how to befriend the Health Minister...