Word: fonder
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Last weekend I was poised on the top of a mountain range, about to shoot down half a mile of icy slush on skis badly in need of sharpening, and a question occurred to me: does absence really make the heart grow fonder? My family took off a few days to do some much-needed bonding on the slopes of the Sunday River Ski Mountain in central Maine, and I made the painful decision to forsake life in Cambridge for a short while. As I skidded and slalomed down the trail on Saturday morning, I was surprised to watch...
...think that to finish the season on a good note would at least make us look back on it with fonder memories and a little more dignity," Jellin said. "It would also give us a little boost going into next year...
CARDIAC BLUES Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but depression seems to make it weaker. A four-year study of nearly 3,000 Dutch men and women concludes that cardiac deaths are three to four times as high for those who suffer from major depression. The cause is probably a combination of the physiological consequences of depression and an unhealthy lifestyle--more common among the depressed. Treating the blues may be a great way to prevent ailing hearts...
...Beatles of the Middle Ages - who basically coined the grammar and syntax of romantic love. It is from them that we derive so many of our romantic assumptions about love - that love involves suffering and anguish, that there is love at first sight, that absence makes the heart grow fonder, that a grand passion is life's great ambition and that finally, as John Lennon said, All you need is love...
...nice-tonight version of the Al Gore and Jack Kemp football-for-chlorofluorocarbons gambit, but if it was it a gambit, it paid off for everybody involved. Yes, Cheney's performance was a bit of a revelation, mostly because it really didn't look like a performance (Lieberman, fonder of the Gore catch phrases but so much gentler than Gore when he spits them out, was merely as affable as expected.) But the shocker was in the, well, civilized nature...