Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intonation is eloquent if the anguish of a boy struggling to cope with a man's problem or of a woman too old for her lover. Though the minor portrayals, particularly of the boy's tolerant father are flawless, it is the interpretations of Francois and Marthe that endow Devil in the Flesh with a beauty and power hard to forget...
...other rooms or into the garden, but its travels add nothing to the play. The film version, however, brings the play two dividends: notable music by Alex North and, more important, searching close-up shots of the principals, Showing the great properties of the movie medium, the close-ups endow the scene in which Miss Waters sings a comforting hymn with a beauty which only the camera could capture. Yet even the close-ups sometimes betray the script, making, lines aimed at the balcony of a play house seem unnecessary and over-wrought...
...heavenly Father, bless richly, we pray thee, thy son and servant who has been chosen by the sovereign people of this great nation to serve as their Chief Executive. Our Father, wilt thou endow him and all of us with a deep spirit of humility and devotion. We know that without thy divine help we cannot succeed...
...bequest was "to the President and Follows of Harvard College . . . in trust to invest and accumulate the income and add it to the principal for a period of one hundred and forty years from the time when this bequest shall be received . . ." (1952). The income is then to endow the Museum...
...money will be used to further endow the fellowship Santayana established here in 1928. He willed most of his $125,000 to Boston relatives...