Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would remove the need to raise substantial capital gifts. Such housing might not contain all the special features associated with a Harvard or Radcliffe House. Instead, an effort would be made in consultation with interested students to develop new housing styles attractive to the small minority that will inevitably prefer alternatives to any form of accommodations, even one as attractive as our Houses provide...
Penny Tweedy was not keen on syndicating her wow horse. "I personally would prefer to race him as long as he stays sound," she says. But the family needed a lot of cash to pay estate taxes after her father, Christopher T. Chenery, utilities magnate and founder of Meadow Stable, died last January. The Secretariat bloodline was the most salable asset...
...community near Tampa, a street sign warns motorists: DRIVE SLOWLY, GRANDPARENTS PLAYING. They are indeed-in ways that their children can scarcely imagine. In Sun City, as well as in other places across the nation, elderly people in growing numbers are having emotionally close, long-term affairs. Young people prefer to think of their parents and grandparents as old moralists, says Unitarian Minister Richard Boeke of St. Petersburg. In fact, he asserts, many of the aged are still looking for sex and romance...
...collector of fine musical instruments, Lilit practices one hour at 6:30 a.m., one hour after school, one hour just before bedtime -and professes not to mind it: "Practicing just makes me want to do it more." She has no close friends at school, partly because the other kids prefer rock to her Romantics: "My brother is my friend." Lilit does not feel that she has missed a thing by. concentrating almost exclusively on music. As she puts it, matter-of-factly: "You can't do everything...
...conservatory will be in Switzerland, but not for a while. Leandro's parents (Mother Dora is a Swiss-born interior decorator) prefer to keep him in the Fuengirola elementary school (where his passion is arithmetic), and limit his concertizing to six weeks a year. The elder Aconchas think the boy needs that much exposure to obtain, says Roberto, "the psychological advantage of being used to an audience." Above all, they want to avoid exhibiting Leandro as a public curiosity. But, says Roberto, "he enjoys playing so much that he regards the concerts as a sort of holiday treat...