Word: fonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point, Deliverance can bear comparison with both books. Ultimately, it fails where they succeed. Dickey's spare narrative-leisurely at the start, then frantic-rushes the reader forward like the accelerating flow of the river. Whether he is describing the soft but fond suburban world that the four men leave at home, or evoking the impact of the plunging water, his language has a descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing...
...possible reason for his mellowness (aside from the love of his private life, a small but vital part of the book) is that his Peace Corps years in Ecuador, 1966-7, were pivotal ones in the lingering death of active student liberalism. He explained that though he was never fond of Lyndon Johnson, neither was he consumed by the vicious, almost pathological hatred for the man that swept much of the movement. Cowan was taking his knocks from a remote extremity of the system while the typical liberal-turned-radical marched on the Pentagon and contemplated the fires of Detroit...
Landry isn't too fond of quitters. "Why do people quit sports at Harvard? Because they're prima donnas. Freshmen here want no-cut contracts...
Staff Abrasive. Fond of mottoes, Johnson keeps handy a printed card that reads: "The only purpose for your activity is to get results." He has always followed that advice. A native lowan and Purdue University engineering graduate, Johnson worked as an assistant commissioner of health in New York City, where he learned firsthand about another environmental hazard: urban decay. His practical experience and accomplishments in New York made him a natural choice to head the environmental service after it was created in July...
...Middle East, where he insulted both Israelis and Arabs with cheerful impartiality (TIME, Feb. 2). the outspoken ex-Foreign Secretary refused to be intimidated by his audience. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, he declared, is "a tough politician-I love her very much. But I'm fond of Nasser, too. If you want peace, you have to like both peoples. The Jews are wrong to attack Nasser. I think he is an honest...