Word: affectionate
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A man who has read Proust in French and can hold forth knowledgeably on the merits of a bottle of Chateau Latour, Breyer is the son of a San Francisco lawyer. With his mother's encouragement, he attended Stanford University instead of Harvard, where she was afraid he would lose...
This initial section of the surviving manuscript, subtitled Search for the Father, achieves a raw, personal poignancy that Camus never allowed himself to show in life. Le Premier Homme also displays Camus's deep, nostalgic affection for the Algeria of his childhood, for the French (the pieds noirs) and other...
WHO PAYS THE BILL? Though the A.N.C. has cast off most of its earlier Marxist affection for planned economies, it does have a five-year plan to address what Mandela refers to as "the basic needs of the masses." It is a 147-page document called "The R.D.P: The Reconstruction...
"The way they responded to me, I couldn't ask for a better bunch of kids to lead," he says. "I feel a great deal of pride and affection for my teammates and their performance."
But by last week, as he lay dying in a stroke-induced coma, the verdict on his life and career was becoming, if not softer, at least more complicated. Messages from around the world poured into the hospital in New York City from the statesmen who admired his reach and...