Word: dears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read in your piece "Dear Dad: Send Lots of Money" [May 30] that state universities are raising their tuition to exorbitant rates. For many aspiring students, Dad can play no role in coping with this problem. In these cases, high tuition means no school...
...Dear Bill...
...authors of the letters are Humorists John Wells and Richard Ingrams. They began writing the "Dear Bill" series soon after Mrs. Thatcher took office in 1979. The feature proved so popular that two years ago it was adapted into a stage farce, Anyone for Denis? The letters have also served to make the real-life Denis, 68, a semiretired businessman who does indeed play golf, a sympathetic figure in his difficult role as Britain's first First Gentleman...
...Baskerville, is an echo of the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the 14th century context, William is a Franciscan friar, famed for his formidable powers of deduction. His companion and disciple is called Adso, or in French, Adson, as in the phrase "Elementary, my dear Adson...
When a man becomes dear to me I have touched the goal of fortune," said Emerson. Still, he was bemused: "I find very little written directly to the heart of this matter." One hundred and forty years later, sociologists have probed the phenomenon of male bonding, and movies have celebrated buddies in times of war and peace. But deep attachments between men still activate suspicions of misogyny or homosexuality. Few books have been written about the real friendships of real people. Thus it took a quantum of cultural courage for David Michaelis, 25, to undertake the subject. It was worth...