Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other frictions, Porter saw an American backlash developing-"the rise of adrenaline in the press and in Congress particularly. It worries me, because it is in the interest of both our countries to ease differences and difficulties." The ambassador suggested that Prime Minister Trudeau and President Gerald Ford, who enjoy cordial personal relations, might meet to help "clear...
Inevitably, a legend of prodigious sexual activity would enwrap as romantic a figure as the wealthy, glamorous young President. Kennedy, moreover, seemed to enjoy the image. He never hid his fondness for attractive women, seeking them out for special attention as he moved into crowds to shake hands or spotting a comely campaign worker among his wide-eyed supporters. Once he startled two proper Britons, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Foreign Minister R.A.B. Butler, during a 1962 conference in Nassau by casually confiding that if he went too long without a woman, he suffered severe headaches...
...acceptance at colleges like X or Y and, long before that, a lack of success at the hurdles of tennis and baseball, camp activities or a first dance? For many children, the problem is not how to survive, as it was 200 years ago, or even how to enjoy an already comfortable life, but how to make sense of an avalanche of possessions, opportunities, possibilities-all of which, in turn, generate demands such as no other children have ever had to face...
...Knef. She has it and lives Proust's horrid little scene. She is in a consulting room when fear engulfs her. "I'll see you at the gala," the doctor assures her. "I'm afraid you won't," she says. "Now, now, now, fresh air, enjoy life and love" is the advice...
Fleeing to Europe, Grimes meets a Faustian figure (but a Faust with charm) named Fabian, who knows every banker, concierge and con man from Rome to Gstaad. He teaches Grimes, the back slid Protestant moralist, how to increase and enjoy his money. But just as Graham Greene knew, Shaw is aware that the piper must always be paid, that his heroes must eventually return home to separate fates. Although they used to worship at entirely different literary shrines (Hemingway on the one hand, Evelyn Waugh on the other), Shaw and Greene are bonded in contemporary let ters by their ability...