Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing Pygmalion. Helene Rochas's mother was one of France's first women dentists. Her father, a World War I hero who was fond of gambling, left his family little when he died. Helene took ballet lessons, became at seven the youngest of "The Opera Rats," and hoped for a career on the stage. At 18, she met Marcel Rochas-in the Metro...
...Castro is fond of saying that there will be a revolution in the United States before there is a counter revolution in Cuba," Worthy went on. "Well, I've just come from the Beckwith trial in Mississippi and I can tell you things are going to change down there and no one's going to wait for the turn of the century, either...
...Small trout passing through it will get scare after scare and emerge fully trained for life in a dangerous river. But the biologist is still bothered. Why should successful students grow to bright-colored maturity only to be caught on an angler's hook? "I have become so fond of the lovely rainbow trout," he says with a tender smile, "that I may start another project to teach them to stay away from hooks. It should be easy enough. Rainbow trout are really smart...
...life in New York. Changing meters, unique harmonies and oddly voiced chords create the effect of a desperate conversation in some other language, a fit of drunken laughter, a shout from a park at night. His melodies make mocking twins of naivete and cynicism, of ridicule and fond memory. Ruby, My Dear and Nutty are likably simple; Off Minor and Trinkle Tinkle are so complex that among pianists only Monk and his early protege, Bud Powell, have been able to improvise freely upon them...
...pools and some restaurants and hotels. Only recently, May or Ivan Allen Jr. testified in Washington in behalf of a federal public-accommodations law. Negro and white leaders for years kept communications open and helped each other resolve many potentially dangerous situations. Atlanta's white leaders especially were fond of boasting about the city's pioneer work in race relations, its enlightened atmosphere, its sweet and easy black and white common sense...