Or, to put it another way, Ronald Fergus, middle aged, overweight, underhaired and slightly lacking in the marbles department, was in his kitchen chatting.

National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.

Massimo Fusarelli, ofm

Such captivating beauty corresponds to our protagonist’s naive idealism, and the rose-colored glasses through which he views an upper-crust world of dandies and refined intellectuals.