Word: fondnesses
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...agenda is likely to be dismissed with derision. Yet now, arguably more urgently than ever, it is incumbent upon us to cast off the shackles of that theology of free-market liberation and come to terms with the actual dynamics of the world we live in. For Harvard students fond of the message that ours is a big burden, it might be pertinent to add that the future of humanity almost certainly rests on the possibility of a radically different world order...
...think filmmakers are so fond of your work? It's visual. I grew up at the movies. I went to movies before I wrote. My first editor Bill Thompson used to laugh and say "Steve King has a movie projector in his head." Filmmakers react to that. They see, because they're visual creatures themselves, and they say, "Gee, I'd love to do that." In some cases they run their heads into the noose, because it's easier to make it up in your mind than it is on the screen...
...twentieth century or something, so I’m wearing a dress and a silly apron. It’s not quite seductive but I’ll find a way to show cleavage.RR: Are you now considering a career in housekeeping?IM: I’m really fond of dusting but only when I don’t have to dust anything. So if I actually have to clean things, not so much.RR: What are you concentrating in?IM: I’m not sure, probably classics.RR: So you’re probably looking forward to a career...
...ready for customers to come back.” This isn’t the first time Chen has been troubled by liquor licenses. A few years ago, Chen was arrested and his license was suspended for 12 days for selling alcohol to minors. Still, Chen has fond memories of operating his store for 18 years in the shadow of Mather House, which went so far as to name the annual “Louie’s Cup” in the store’s honor. Chen has taken to decorating his store with foreign tender given...
...hard to say why, apart from habit, there should be any nostalgia for royal forms among Australians, especially when we are so fond of our national antielitism. But people, including Australians, want figures to admire. "If we don't have the Queen, whom can we look up to?" was one of the most frequent complaints at referendum time. The thought that in a democracy you don't look up to your superiors, but sideways at your fellow citizens, wasn't much aired in monarchist circles. And Australia has always been short not only of convincing shared ceremonies of national identity...