Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These days, any experienced romantic reader would greet each page like a fond landmark on a trip back home. Martha is a typical heroine: shy but proud, quick with the truth but slow to subtlety, attractive in certain lights but no raving beauty. Connan is a worthy offspring of Mr. Rochester, a weary, sardonic fellow who never gets around to explaining the only thing the heroine has to know. Romantic props abound: deliciously enigmatic dreams, shadows in windows, gossiping servants, a horse that throws the child. Even the nomenclature is classic: Alvean, Gillyflower, Celestine...
...Liberals" are fond of casting at us the comparison with Nazi tactics during the Weimar Republic period in Germany. Besides inviting these critics to consider the content of our program, I would suggest that they take a closer look at this period in German history, for there is a lesson to be learned about the supposed "absolute" validity of the traditional liberties and the classical liberalism which supports them...
...shouldn't the Spanish like me? They're very fond of Don Quixote...
Running Conflict. The broadcast ultimatum came as a stunning shock to Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel, 46, who was fond of saying that only a parliamentary majority could depose him. But the military left him no room for maneuver, and he quickly resigned...
...refusal to participate in liberal anti-war demonstrations was vaguely understandable, its empty denunciations of radical groups supporting the NLF were not. One of PL's principal objections to the NLF was that its leaders had agreed to peace talks with the U. S., and, as PL is so fond of saying, "there is nothing to negotiate." Yet the NLF has made no binding concessions at the talks, and is probably doing no more in Paris than buying needed time. Another of PL's objections was that the NLF is supplied by two "revisionist" powers: the Soviet Union and North...