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...Unnamed Lake. A few years ago, a heart ailment slowed down Hester's long search. One day in February 1959, he said to his wife with a sad, fond smile: "The next heart attack I have, I'll see Bob." That same day, at 63, he died...
...problem would be a recording or concert performance in the original--and, to most of us, impenetrable--French. But the music is so gracefully opposite to its subject matter that something of precious value is lost when there is no palpable context for it; Offenbach was, au fond, a man of the theatre...
...fond sort of mother's reverse intimacy, UPI shared by Rose Kennedy (sec above) but not by U.S. voters, who know their favorites as Dick and Jack...
...forced to marry Don Manuel Godoy, a shrewd provincial nobody whose seductive charms eventually made him lover to the Queen, favorite to the King, Duke of Alcudia and later Sueca, Prince of the Peace, Prime Minister-and the most hated man in Spain. The King was so fond of Godoy that he wanted him to be part of the family, and Godoy himself languidly wrote of his marriage: "I obeyed in this, as in all the acts of my life, with loyalty and submission." But what was merely a bore to the favorite was torture to his wife...
...satirist who more than half loved the subjects of his satire, an observer with a fond but unforgiving eye for detail, he left a record of American life that criticized without insisting on condemnation and entertained without stooping to farce. Above all, he found individuality where only conformity was supposed to exist and gave the reader a feeling not only of recognizing but of understanding himself...