Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days, tutors are fond of remembering, seniors also wrote theses and in great numbers--back, that is, before the counter-culture, Kissinger and the permanent recession. But those theses, we are told, were different they were generally thought of as broad, even speculative essays on a major problem within a field. Students were supposed to look back on their field and direct their analytical or synthetic juggernauts at a problem of major importance. Seniors are remembered writing on Shakespeare or Milton rather than on bad novels by obscure madmen; they reflected on the Civil War or the New Deal instead...
...regardless of Winig's endorsement, the doctors downstairs don't encourage women to ask for IUDs, especially if the woman has not had childbirth. "I'm not very fond of the IUD," says Blevins. "I don't think women tolerate their IUDs very well. I could learn to put them...
...Vidal entered a movie theater "to see some old March of Time newsreels. And there, suddenly, was my father. It made an extraordinary impact on me. He must have been about 35, and there I was, older than that, watching him. It was very strange. I was very, very fond...
...include it? Nevertheless this starts him off on a long reverie of nostalgia for his days as a chapel boy, from which he awakes a few pages later, and returns to thoughts of his mother. In fact, the book seems more like a letter to himself; he is quite fond of discreetly recounting the dinners and accolades he has amassed...
...because of my fond memories of the Crimson that I write this, for I do not know Chris Daly and would not otherwise have responded to his review (which was just mailed to me). But I hope the Crimson still cherishes the first three rules of journalism--accuracy, accuracy, accuracy...