Word: fondness
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Despite his Marxist beliefs, Allende savored the good life. He drank Scotch, liked golf and was fond of good wines. In addition to his family home, he reportedly had a hideaway to which he would take cronies−and women−and barbecue steaks for them. Allende was a sophisticated but casual dresser who favored turtleneck sweaters even at work. In fact, he was reportedly wearing a white turtleneck when he died. After the fighting died down last week, the military government televised a film showing Allende's imposing wardrobe and shelves of imported liquor and foods. The implication...
...interested in animals soon after he was born in Jamshedpur, India, where he demanded a daily trip to a small zoo. The family later moved to England and after that to the Greek island of Corfu, where young Durrell began stuffing matchboxes with spiders, scorpions and snakes. He is fond of saying that his only formal education took place as a student keeper at London Zoo's Whipsnade Park, which he left at 21 with a small inheritance to begin a collecting career that has taken him to the wilds of six continents...
TIME MAGAZINE, the preacher to the Nation, is fond of weighing the returns from Harvard heavily when it sifts through the mounds of evidence that pour through its good offices. In its relentless search for national patterns and trends, the Magazine seizes upon even the most insignificant rumors floating out of Cambridge as the harbingers of nationwide change...
...Ervin is fond of citing a subpoena for certain papers and testimony issued to President Thomas Jefferson. But Jefferson's information was sought not by Congress but by a court for the criminal trial of Aaron Burr on treason charges. The situation is different when the Legislative Branch is locked in direct conflict with the Executive. Only last year Justice William O. Douglas argued that it is "no concern of the courts, as I see it whether a committee of Congress can obtain [an Executive Department document]. The federal courts do not sit as an ombudsman, refereeing the disputes...
...Cukor's playful digs at romanticism still haven't inured him to it. Over-fond of the past, he brings confused eyes to the present, and stretches the contrast between to ludicrous dimensions. On the Orient Express Henry smokes dope with a wealthy bluejeaned backpacking American girl. Her father is in the CIA, her boyfriend a pop artist, and she can talk of nothing but the fact that her period is late and whom among her countless bedmates could the culprit be? Then Henry sleeps with her. The girl is just a modern version of Aunt Augusta, but stripped...