Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What gives his music its special character is its aura of the fantastic and diabolical. Lees himself traces his fond ness for surprise and mysterious change of mood to the Dadaists and to surrealists like Duchamp, Max Ernst and Man Ray, whose works he got to know during his days in Paris from 1954 to 1962. "Surrealism is representational but in a disturbing way," says Lees. "It reminds you of a dream. This is the element I have tried to transform into music...
Once again the U.S. had to separate fond hope from grim fact. On successive days, the Johnson Administration announced that reinforcements would be sent immediately to South Viet Nam and that the latest rumors about peace feelers from Hanoi had added up to nothing. As if to underscore the news, Communist forces over the weekend launched a savage new offensive across South Viet...
...nation's second primary on April 2, Nixon seemed to have shucked many of his old liabilities-most notably his humorlessness and his guarded approach to the press. Self-confident and almost too self-effacing, Nixon wowed packed houses from Green Bay and Appleton to Stevens Point and Fond...
...comes out of his country, President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman of Liberia, 72, has proved to be mighty resilient. He first took office in 1944 and, in his inauguration speech in 1964, intimated that he hoped to bow out as President after his fifth term. But Tubman has become fond of inaugurations. Last May he again ran for reelection, this time without even the usual token opponent. As he begins his 25th year this week, Tubman has some claim to being called an elder statesman. Among the notables due in Monrovia for his New Year's Day inauguration...
Denmark's Godtfred Kirk Christian sen, 47, is fond of remarking that even the best is none too good for children, and he should know what he is talking about: the worldwide success of his Lego toymaking business has all the ingredients of a modern-day Hans Chris tian Andersen fairy tale. An anomaly among internationally minded Danish executives, Christiansen speaks no for eign languages, bases his family-owned enterprise not in Copenhagen but in the remote Jutland village of Billund (pop. 1,300). Nonetheless, his up-from-nothing business has annual sales of more than $30 million...