Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lewis calls his 18th century colonial home Strawberry Hill after the gothic castle that Walpole designed for himself in Twickenham. He shares other Walpolian intersts: he is fond of art and antiques, carries on a voluminous correspondence of his own, and spends his spare time writing essays. Besides continuing the Yale volumes, Lewis is currently working on a book of essays about literature he has particularly enjoyed. In a chapter on Cicero's De Senectute, Lewis has written: "Ardent collectors are among the happiest of men because age does not weaken their rapacity." Clearly, Wilmarth Lewis is among...
...Friday, Oct. 5, Agnew gave the word to reopen the negotiations to Judah Best, his Washington lawyer. Best immediately got in touch again with Fred Buzhardt, who was in Key Biscayne. Both men are fond of direct action and short, pungent phrases, and they understood each other completely. Buzhardt was definitely interested in talking. That night Best grabbed a plane to Florida and the two men met in a Miami motel in the predawn hours. Their approach was simple: let's get off dead center-the country requires that something be done. After their talk, Buzhardt called the Justice...
...look more and more like one of her dummies. The Platters, the Walker Broth ers and Giuseppe Verdi furnish the music, the art director furnishes the flat-outside of which the movie never strays-and Fassbinder furnishes still another reason why West German movies are regarded with as much fond anticipation as major surgery...
...fact is that I'm not that fond of baseball, and it's especially deadly on television. But I do believe in The Park, green grass, hot seats, warm beer. I just like to go out and get juiced. And I'm no fanatic, so I tend towards the unconventional in my allegiances. I follow the Phillies, because they're always on the verge; they walk that border line between talent and good-natured ineptitude...
...surf: "Paul Valery/ Earned a meager salary/ Walking through the Bois/ Observing his Moi." When people called him frivolous, Auden replied, "When you are labeled 'serious' in the U.S., you are expected to wear a long face all the time. I don't agree." He was fond of adding in defense of craftsmanship, "Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are irresponsible puppets of fate and charm...