Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question about his long-range political plans by saying: "Six years is so far away, tomorrow is so far away. I don't even know if I'll be alive in six years." More recently: "If anyone wants to kill me it won't be difficult." And he was fond of quoting Edith Hamilton: "Men are not made for safe havens...
...best, truest friend." It is not that boys are not fond of horses. The last thing Victor Esch Jr., 10, does before he goes to bed in Potomac, Md., is shine a spotlight out of the window to be sure his pony Misty is all right. But girls are more lavish with their affection. "He's my best, truest friend," says Mary Jay Harrigan, 8, who spends her afternoons after school in Colebrook, N.H., riding her 21-year-old chestnut gelding Ahab the Arab. When Sue Ann Meyer returned home from camp to her parents in Lincoln, Mass...
...distinguished Marine career is coming to an end. At 5 ft. 4¾ in. and 134 lbs., Lieut. General Victor H. Krulak, 55, hardly seems the sort to be nicknamed "the Brute." But that's the handle; it's fond and it fits. Strong and scrappy as a wire-haired terrier, Krulak was commissioned in 1934, won a Navy Cross (second only to the Congressional Medal of Honor) in the Solomon Islands in 1943, became one of the youngest generals in Marine history at the age of 43 in 1956, and helped to map U.S. strategy in Viet...
Hunting Horseradish. He is fond of citing the state's illustrious sons and daughters, mentioning the only Hoosier President, Benjamin Harrison, in the same breath as Marjorie Main, Jimmy Hoffa, John Dillinger and Eugene Debs. He talks familiarly of Booth Tarkington, remarks that James Whitcomb Riley was "more of a devotee of the glass than the typewriter," and notes that "we had Theodore Dreiser, who wrote Sister Carrie and scared everybody in Indiana right out of their wits." He brings up that other literary figure, one James Buchanan Elmore, author of the lines: "My wife has gone ahunting/ Horseradish...
Updike sees not catastrophe but an approach to fulfillment in past American experience, and his earlier work was a fond evocation of its elemental struggles, its integral faith and its microcosmic triumphs. In Couples, this elegy is modulated into a lament for the pampered, wayward millions of today...