Word: fond
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...same applies to the liberal use of quotation marks, which run through the books like tiny underscoring arrows. The Message to the Planet is overly fond of this intrusive nudging. Here is the latest Murdoch female masochist in full lament: "Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times, when she was alone and longing to 'break down,' to clutch her breast." Terrible, for that matter, is a favorite word. So are appalling, awful, horrible, dreadful and all forms of the word dark. "These dreadful ideas, horrors from the past...
When I hung my Confederate flag over a month ago, I hung it with all the pride and fond memories I have of the Southern culture in which I was raised. After living for a year and a half at Harvard, away from the lifestyle I love, I was comforted by the sight of the flag. I placed it in my window with pride, but eventually learned that my flag had been totally misinterpreted and misunderstood by many...
...freshness and decay, virility and impotence. He was not in any real sense a political artist -- unlike his colleague James Gillray. Beneath Rowlandson's comedy there was a clawing, nagging fear of falling apart. As well there should have been, the censorious might add: he was a rake, too fond of cards, women and the bottle for his own good. And his work is full of Dreadful Elders, gouty, poxed, many-chinned, snouted, toothless, cunning, gross and mangy, peering with lust and censure at the beautiful juicy young, who mainly ignore them. This, he keeps saying, is what you will...
...Leila is fond of exalted similes. "My heart blazes like Shelley's on that beach" (her boyfriend is back); "I wander in like Theseus into the Labyrinth" (she's in the wine cellar); "We lie together, Pan and Ceres, the god of the woods and the goddess of grain" (afterglow). Half the novel is about her ill-fated passion; the rest is her resume. Leila did the '60s ("I produced happenings with Yoko Ono") and civil rights ("Mississippi with Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney"). She sounds a little like the pathological liar on Saturday Night Live: Yeah, that...
...tradeoff." In the words of Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, any attempt to redistribute the pie results in a smaller pie. Welfare creates perverse incentives not to work and reduces the efficiency of business--the so-called "leaky bucket." Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes is fond of calling redistribution a "parasite" on the body of a healthy capitalist economy...