Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professor, fond fellow, decides that "what he really ought to do [is] sleep with Wendy ... as soon as possible. She would see then that he was only a man like other men ... He didn't want to commit adultery, he told himself, but it was his duty...
...elaborate mixture of fact and fiction through which he is attempting to restore to his countrymen the history of Russia since 1914. Solzhenitsyn is also clearly working on the creation of a rich, interlocking literary world that will revive a 19th century conception of man, shorn of his fond hopes for progress, but still a creature endowed with conscience and a soul who has need for piety, loyalty, continuity and simplicity in order to survive...
...Soviet Chinese agent (TIME, Feb. 4). That alleged bit of espionage intensified an already lengthy campaign of anti-Soviet propaganda by Peking's press on every subject from Russia's economic assistance ("plunder") to disarmament ("a swindle") to Moscow's policies in Southeast Asia ("a fond dream of building a greater Russian empire...
Rosovsky said he no longer sees a consensus among educators and students regarding the goals of undergraduate education. Liberal education has lost much of its meaning at Harvard, Rosovsky says, as General Education courses often merge with departmental offerings. Rosovsky is fond of asking audiences, "Should tap-dancing be given credit?" and answering that "we have lost the capacity to answer such questions because we have no criteria to do so." Within two years the new Redbook committee, he says, should try to reach a new consensus about what undergraduate education should be. Like its predecessor, the new committee...
...some degree, the parents are spared because they continue to see the boys as boys. There are ready, fond and funny reminiscences of their scampish escapades. But on another level, too much planning and sacrifice have been invested in making the boys proper successes to admit baffling failure...