Word: fonder
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...must prevent communism from jumping to the North American mainland. Well, great. But even assuming communism is like a weather front or measles, spreadable as pollen on the wind, we may be more responsible for its currency in the Third World than the Soviets. I found Nicaraguans much fonder of Americans than of Russians, but far angrier at the U.S. Government than at anything the USSR has done. Nicaragua is a country where veneration for Marx, though well advanced in some circles, is considerably less than the veneration for the Virgin Mary in those same circles. Try saying that about...
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien might not agree. "My perfect Valentine would be for the President [Bok] to take a three-month vacation every year," he says...
There is no fonder acronym in art than MOMA, as this 55-year-old institution has long been known. One cannot imagine New York City, or modernism itself, without it. More than any other museum in the world, MOMA is identified with its subject and defines its history. It was not the intention of Alfred Barr (1902-1981), the first director and ideological shaper of the museum, to create a Louvre for something that seemed, in 1929, as vulnerable and problematic as modern art. Nevertheless, that was what happened. One cannot open a periodical without being told, yet again, that...
During the incessant pulling on and off of the "covers" (tarpaulins), British journalists and other kinds adjourned to a convenient bar. Invariably, the conversation wound its way to tradition. "Americans seem even fonder of tradition than we are," said Laurie Pignon of the Daily Mail, "one supposes because they have so bloody little of it. But they have the best winners in tennis, and we have the best losers in the world, and tradition will always keep Wimbledon special, if not what it was." For Pignon, a picturesquely mustachioed man with a pipe and a paisley shirt, this...
...five-week tour of Australia and New Zealand, Venezuela and the U.S., the Prince saw his Lady's face on newsstands and TV screens all around him and spoke to her frequently by phone. "It was the ultimate case of absence makes the heart grow fonder,' " insists Holden. "He was falling in love with her from a distance, and I think it is quite clear this thing is going to become a genuine love match...