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Listeners were diverted to hear him explain, in answer to a question about his personal life, that his pastimes included “middle-aged antics,” and they must have wondered what innocent japes--or perhaps amorous frolics--the old boy got up to, until they worked out that middle-aged was his very reasonable attempt at translating du moyen age (medieval), and that antics was his Gallic stress pattern for `antiques'.
News Quiz participants found common ground in their loathing for professional scold William Bennett--his perpetual disapproval, his sanctimonious speechifying, his humorless yelping, the way the sunlight turns his hair into an auburn cascade, the kooky little songs he sings in the shower, his tousled amorous look first thing in the morning, the way his knowing hands, so strong yet so gentle ...
Most notably, the book reveals excerpts from Roosevelt's letters that confirm suspicions, raised in the previous volume, of her amorous relationship with Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok.
He wanted, he told me--this man's career is based on deep thinking and he lives in amorous harmony with a woman--to look like a gay weight lifter.
Decades ago, cartoons frequently featured secretaries warding off amorous bosses.