Word: fonds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
ARIEL ("ARIK") SHARON, the paratroop general who heads the southern command of Israel's defense forces, is so fond of the Hebrew couplet that he has hung it over the entrance of his Beersheba headquarters. But the exuberant confidence that once made it so fitting has disappeared in Israel. A note of doubt is creeping in. From Mount Hermon down to the Red Sea, Israel dispatched her Arab foes with relative ease in three wars. But now there is a new unknown to cope with in the form of Russia's dramatically increased presence in the Middle East...
...Vietnam is not, as many of its liberal critics would have it, a "quagmire." It is not a "morass." Americans are fond of viewing Asian wars as vast, unintelligible struggles involving numberless hordes of small, identical, machine-like fanatics. This view explains in a comforting way why the Vietnamese have been able to mount such an incredibly strong and tenacious resistance to American domination in South Vietnam...
John Ehrlichman, 45, looks as approachable as a Junior Chamber of Commerce booster. His face settles quite naturally into a smile, while his waistline suggests a temporary breakdown in an otherwise vigorous selfdiscipline. Though he neither drinks nor smokes, Ehrlichman and his wife are fond of throwing family barbecues at their suburban Virginia home. Among friends, Ehrlichman displays a penchant for puns and a dry sense of humor. Last year he told the audience at a Women's National Press Club dinner that he works in the White House because it was the only way he could...
...outer space conclusively on the sound track of the film 2001. As an experiment, Volumina recalls the way Cage and Henry Cowell, in the 1930s, used to beat the prepared piano with their fists and elbows for new sonority. Like Cage and Cowell, the "Zacher school" seems as fond of grotesquerie as grace. And even grotesquerie has its place. It was Berlioz, after all, who ordered the violinists to rap on their strings with the wood of their bows in the Symphonie Fantastique, a very avant-garde thing...
...after the heroine of one of his novels. As Michael Arlen, he became a celebrity from Mayfair to Detroit in the days before the word and the condition were tired and devalued. Now his son, a TV critic and essayist, has written a wry and moving but far from fond memoir of his parents. He avoids the more impersonal roles of biographer or critic, as well as the casual stance of a raconteur with weighty names to drop. Instead, Exiles is a rare and minute accounting of growing up: the connections made and missed between parent and child...