Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson is quite fond of asking White House guests if they happen to have any criticism of his Administration. Whether the guests are Republican or Democratic, the criticisms are few and far between. But whenever one comes, Lyndon is likely to lower his head and allow 'as how: "Maybe you're right. Maybe, for the good of the country, I shouldn't even run for President this year...
...Although many of us are fond of the stately language of our Book of Common Prayer, a large body of opinion exists within the Episcopal Church that would favor changes in that language so as to make it more understandable to the 20th century Christian. The type of language chosen by our Roman Catholic brothers has in many ways shown us the need to update our own forms of worship...
...Park's nephew by marriage and head of Park's Democratic-Republican Party. Kim is hated by the students because of the ruthless way he once ran Park's Central Intelligence Agency and because he has been instrumental in the controversial negotiations with Japan. Kim is fond of saying, "I am nothing but a shadow of the President." Would the man who casts the shadow be the mob's next victim...
...corner practice in Harlem two years ago to form a midtown Manhattan law firm, but he still takes many cases on behalf of the poor. During the academic year he delivers about 20 lectures a month, most of them sharply critical of organized Christianity's pretensions. He is fond, for example, of calling the current church interest in race as "too little, too late and too lily-white." But Stringfellow makes no apologies for his jeremiads. "Protestantism has forgotten that it is a community, a nation," he says. "It has little sense of being God's people...
...child is fond of screaming," Dame Edith explains, because "by some extraordinary carelessness she was violated in Hyde Park at the age of twelve." Moreover, the child hates her mother, who has recently remarried, and she keeps threatening to burn down the house. While Deborah gallantly maneuvers to reunite mother and daughter and keep the home fires from spreading, the butler (Hayley's real-life father, John Mills) arranges luncheon for a guest, an elderly judge. Of course the judge's intimates call him "Puppy." Of course he is the very man who once condemned the lovely governess...