Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam is not, as many of its liberal critics would have it, a "quagmire." It is not a "morass." Americans are fond of viewing Asian wars as vast, unintelligible struggles involving numberless hordes of small, identical, machine-like fanatics. This view explains in a comforting way why the Vietnamese have been able to mount such an incredibly strong and tenacious resistance to American domination in South Vietnam...
...talked, so strongly and convincingly." Coretta Scott soon found, too, that "M. L. King Jr.," as he called himself, made quick decisions. By the end of the date, he had told her that she "had everything I have ever wanted in a wife." As she observes in this fond memoir of their 15 years together, "it was as if he had no time for mistakes, as if he had to make up his mind quickly and correctly, and then move on with his life...
...leader of the U.S. Senate for the past ten years. Dirksen commanded the power to alter the directions of the nation, and sometimes he almost gave the impression of whimsicality in the causes he embraced. At times, he was a man of stupefying inconsistency. But then Dirksen always was fond of quoting Emerson on the hobgoblin of little minds. It was Dirksen, an old supporter of Joe McCarthy. who almost singlehanded kept the utterly superfluous Subversive Activities Control Board in business two years ago. It was Ev, too, who had been seeking a constitutional convention to overturn the Supreme Court...
...they turn warily and discover that Allen's pistol hand is a gleaming blob of soap bubbles. And so it goes, with sight gags interspersed with word foolery. The offbeat one-liner is Allen's comic forte, as when he speaks of a girl he was once fond of: "I used to make obscene telephone calls to her, collect." That might not be great comic writing, but it is good enough to take the money...
...many young newsmen, the passing of the old guard is not cause for fond goodbyes but bitter good riddances. They represented, says one young Tribune staffer, the "tired old practice of letting the status quo define what the news is." Mindful that their young reporters reflect the tastes of the growing number of young readers, editors are letting their younger charges have their head-within limits. Explains Emmett Dedmon, editorial director of Field Enterprises, which owns the Daily News and the Sun-Times: "This is the era of the young, socially aware reporter. We allow them more freedom today...