Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equal in death," said Snow. "They are not born equal." It is nonsense, he continued, to think humans are born as blank sheets of paper to be filled in by parents, teachers and circumstances. After talking, Snow sipped tea, nibbled sandwiches, and allowed that he is very fond of the U.S. "I like the enormous intelligence of the people, the astonishing variety of virtue and skill. The top echelons of Leicester wouldn't compare with the top echelons of, say, Akron, Ohio...
...films, the plot is so plain, despite its variety of psychological and emotional levels, that it can be summarized as an anecdote. An old couple leave their home in the port-town of Shimonoseki their children in Tokyo. But there they are intruders in spite of a fond reception, there is no place for them in their children's homes, and they are sent away to vacation at some hot springs resort. The boisterous carryings-on of young people drive them back to Tokyo, they then decide to return home. On the way, the wife, who has always seemed...
Korin, it seems, was one of those exquisitely chic and talented spendthrifts whom the Japanese remember with fond envy. The son of a wealthy artist-merchant in Kyoto, he dissipated a fortune by such gestures as wrapping his box lunch for a cherry blossom-viewing picnic in costly gold-leafed and painted bamboo sheaths, then nonchalantly flinging them away into the river. But he was no dilettante. Korin's work embraced most mediums, even the decoration of plates, on which he collaborated with his brother Ogata Kenzan to produce works like the hexagonal iron-brown dish bearing a figure...
...trend, as Manhattan tastemakers were quick to conclude? Perhaps. Levin was fond of describing his restaurant as "a place where people come to dine, not to eat." With a trace of scorn, he notes that people today are merely eating. Soule had a following that included a host's delight of the wealthy and famous. Levin tried to build a new, younger clientele, without much luck...
...Barth is fond these days of recounting the origin of Giles Goat-Boy, his next novel. It seems that critics of The Sot-Weed Factor began commenting on the similarity between that novel's protagonist and the archetypal mythic hero--with his innocence, his rite of sexual initiation, his quest and so on. Barth himself protests that such similarity was quite unconscious, but once alerted, he set out to make good use of it. Written with the same complexity of plot and wild comedy that filled The Sot-Weed Factor. Giles Goat-Boy is the tale of George Giles, Everyhero...