Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle returns to his own apartments by 8 p.m., watches the TV news, and then usually dines with his wife and other relations whenever there is no state banquet. Like the lunches, dinners are simple and quick. De Gaulle is fond of soup, and huffily remarks that the Elysée blends are inferior to those prepared by his Colombey cook, Philoméne. He also dotes on a special beef stew that the family calls "stewed Salan's head.'' Dinner over, De Gaulle may watch a private screening of a movie (preferably a comedy...
Miller is very fond of Guerard. "I never saw a man who could inspire a writer to write, and inspire a certain love, too. He is an extraordinary teacher." As an undergraduate at Harvard, Miller took writing courses from Guerard, Archibald MacLeish, and Monroe Engel. He was part of a group of active writers in Cambridge at that time, which included Dale Harris, Sally Bingham, Jonathan Kozol and Arthur Kopit. They were all in the same courses together, he recalls, and stimulated each other to do better and better work...
Flowers were heaped high, cops stood around the casket, and hundreds of mourners trooped by. It was a fine funeral; and Jasper McLevy. who was fond of funerals and used to attend three or four a week, would have enjoyed it. But this was Jasper's own: the man who had served almost a quarter-century as the Socialist mayor of Bridgeport. Conn., was dead...
...should greatly reduce the danger that, after De Gaulle. France will return to the chaos of the Fourth Republic. But this will depend in large measure on whether the U.N.R. can grow into something more than an appendage to Charles de Gaulle's personal prestige. Anti-Gaullists are fond of pointing out that De Gaulle's ministers have no policies-until De Gaulle announces them. For the present, De Gaulle's rule is so personal that his favor may be more important than an official position. Says former Premier Pflimlin: "The important thing at this point...
That song is a fond hymn to the contemplative life of the moonshiner, but Joan Baez delivers it in a manner that suggests that all good lives, respectable or not, are soon...