Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Papa. Could she talk a little, then, about Ernest Hemingway, whose picture-with a fond inscription to the "Kraut"-she reverentially puts in all her dressing rooms? "That has all been publicized," she abruptly answers, then relents enough to add: "He knew me better than anybody, and naturally he could say it better than anybody." Naturally. "She is brave, beautiful, loyal, kind and generous," Papa began an encomium that is now reproduced on one of her record albums...
...Yale Law School. He thus opposes legalistic custodial laws that assign orphaned children to their nearest blood relatives. He prefers laws that would "acknowledge the emotional realities that exist," allowing the judge discretion to assign the children to a distant relative or even a close friend who is fond of them. His Yale colleague, Jay Katz, proposes in the case of runaways "a provision for legally approved separation between parents and children. Better to have it over than to maintain a fiction...
...object of endless political intrigue between court factions who wanted to influence the future monarch. "I will be good," the 11-year-old Victoria exclaimed with fervor when Lehzen revealed to her that one day she would be Queen. But life, meanwhile, was cruelly tedious. "I am very fond of pleasant society," she complained when 16, "and we have been for the last three months immured within our old palace. I longed sadly for some gaiety." The princess was a creature of exuberant vitality. As a diarist, for example, she tried to practice total recall, scribbling and underlining...
...With politicians, however, it is different. Politicians may be more splendid than us in many ways: often as studs, generally as charlatans, frequently as possessors of charisma. They may even show superior intelligence upon occasion. But we never have to worry about a politician's morals. We are fond of them because we know they are our moral inferiors. May I say that George McGovern left me in a state of confusion because he was the only major politician I ever met who felt like my moral superior...
...remotely fond of drama would want Arthur Miller to stop writing plays, but it would have been a blessing if someone-either God or the Devil-had stopped him from indulging in Creation...