Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should keep quiet and cover her head in church. I just can't go along with him on that." Carter also has read deeply from the works of religious thinkers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Earth, Paul Tillich and Soren Kierkegaard and quotes from them. In particular, he is fond of this sentence from Niebuhr: "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world...
...Hand of Fate" resurrects a favorite theme. Always fond of Southern tales, in this version Jagger adopts the persona of a southern man "on the run 'cause (he) killed a man" and in narrative style informs us of the details. Jagger's voice is sometimes disturbing as he descends below his natural register, but for the most part the song rocks in a typical Jagger-Richard fashion, pleasing because it is so familiar. Yet Keith Richard's clean, tough guitar riffs have lost something of their power since the early days. Interestingly the finest guitar work to be found...
...George and all his kin, it will be a royal Bicentennial. In fond, forgiving tribute to the nation that rejected monarchy 200 years ago, nine of Europe's ten reigning families will have visited the U.S. by year's end. Preparing for one of the biggest convergences of royalty since the days when regal retinues descended on Paris or Vienna for filet Empire, monarchs in palaces from Copenhagen's Amalienborg to Madrid's Zarzuela are brushing up on such transatlantic lore as Queen Elizabeth's relationship to George Washington (second cousin seven times removed) and the name of U.S.S. Monitor...
...went to the monastery with a great fear. I wondered how I could fill this heart of mine in the desert, alone, because I am a man fond of human social contact...
Though the overall level of taxation has remained low during this era, the burden has been shifted even more to the backs of the working people, the average citizens whom Wallace is so fond of mentioning. Wealthy individuals and corporations contribute an even smaller percentage of the total state revenue than they did in 1963. In fact, according to Alabama Attorney General William J. Baxley, Alabama now has the "most regressive tax structure in the country...