Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Moore is outstanding as Bob, the only fully developed character in the play. Moore's sensitivity to the interaction of his seven apartment-mates ties the production together, saving it from the shallow script. His fond acceptance of their emotional flaws become our own, and we begin to tolerate their dramatic flaws as well...
...about politicians," Reeves admits. "I don't feel any great obligation to recount their many and varied personal and professional virtues. That is what they, or the taxpayers, are paying for in the salaries and fees of press secretaries, media advisers and advertising agencies." He picked up his fond contempt for politicos from the fetid municipal air of Jersey City, where he grew up as the son of a county judge. "There were two groups of politicians there," Reeves recalls, "those who sold out and those who went to jail...
...tell from here...what the inhabitants of Venus are like; they resemble the Moors of Granada; a small, black people, burned by the sun, full of wit and fire, always in love, writing verse, fond of music, arranging festivals, dances and tournaments every...
When her father dies, she dons male garb and enrolls in a yeshiva, a school for rabbinical studies. Assuming the name of Anshul, she becomes increasingly fond of her fellow student Avigdor (John V. Shea). The sundering of a marriage contract has left Avigdor desolate at the loss of a comely local girl named Hadass (Lynn Ann Leveridge). Avigdor conceives the idea that if he cannot have Hadass, Anshul shall. Anshul/Yentl goes through with the marriage, and she manages to keep it deceptively intact, though Jehovah alone knows quite...
Hall had always called himself a son of Dixie, and by 1914, sure enough, he was in New Orleans, publishing a little magazine called Rebellion. It must have been something of a fond return for him, since New Orleans was the city where Hall had settled at the turn of the century, and where he had gone through a sea change that leaves me almost completely baffled, even more than do the other bits and pieces of his life I've found...