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Medical practitioners born and bred in the United Kingdom are just as guilty as their patients of spreading these opaque synonyms, abetted in their case by a fondness for a special kind of baby-talk that is supposed to reassure the patient: We're just going to pop you into the operating theatre and have a little peep in your tummy.
In the Shawnian scheme of things, being or not being an intellectual would appear to be an issue only for men, as if the only thing that kept them from humping everything like craven dogs was a fondness for sonnets.
(Homework assignment: find a single front-page piece in the entire history of the NYT emphasizing Hitler's fondness for animals and children.)
Barr, the only member of Congress whose fondness for guns exceeds the National Rifle Association's, also led the attempt to repeal Clinton's assault-weapons ban.
I've read book after book by this guy in an effort to understand why he's so highly regarded by comics critics, but I don't get it--maybe it's his fondness for retro '20s graphics.