Word: fondness
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...Friday, Oct. 5, Agnew gave the word to reopen the negotiations to Judah Best, his Washington lawyer. Best immediately got in touch again with Fred Buzhardt, who was in Key Biscayne. Both men are fond of direct action and short, pungent phrases, and they understood each other completely. Buzhardt was definitely interested in talking. That night Best grabbed a plane to Florida and the two men met in a Miami motel in the predawn hours. Their approach was simple: let's get off dead center-the country requires that something be done. After their talk, Buzhardt called the Justice...
...fact is that I'm not that fond of baseball, and it's especially deadly on television. But I do believe in The Park, green grass, hot seats, warm beer. I just like to go out and get juiced. And I'm no fanatic, so I tend towards the unconventional in my allegiances. I follow the Phillies, because they're always on the verge; they walk that border line between talent and good-natured ineptitude...
...heir to the British throne had been reading the latest spate of speculation about his marital plans. Currently supposed to be the leading choice as his future Queen: Lady Jane Wellesley, 22, daughter of the seventh Duke of Wellington. But then, Bonnie Prince Charlie is also rumored to be fond of Rose Clifton, 21, whose father is a retired army officer. Maybe Charles will be beaten to the altar by Europe's youngest and newest monarch, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. It seems that wavy-haired Carl Gustaf, 27, may be smitten with Silvia de Toledo-Sommerlath...
...might have belonged to a ravaged cigar-store Indian who lived too long and felt too deeply the weight of human weakness. His voice, lifting as it often did over lecture audiences in places like Fond du Lac, Wis., Ames, Iowa, or Cambridge, Mass., was high, flat and to some American ears, unnervingly British. His two grandfathers were Anglican clergymen. He studied biology at Oxford and at the end of his life held a chair there at Christ College. He could (and did) recently write, "Our earth in 19697 Is not the planet I call mine/ ... My Eden landscapes...
...surf: "Paul Valery/ Earned a meager salary/ Walking through the Bois/ Observing his Moi." When people called him frivolous, Auden replied, "When you are labeled 'serious' in the U.S., you are expected to wear a long face all the time. I don't agree." He was fond of adding in defense of craftsmanship, "Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are irresponsible puppets of fate and charm...