Word: ambrosias
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...Correspondent David Lee reported on the scene and personalities at NASA's mission control center in Houston. Aerospace Correspondent Jerry Hannifin furnished the "specs" of U.S. and Soviet space hardware. Reporter-Researcher Janice Castro verified details ranging from what the American astronauts will have for dessert (rehydratable peach ambrosia) to the mechanics of the "androgynous" docking module that will link the Soviet and American vehicles...
...Flip Wilson is standing at the front of the studio stage flipping the final wave as the theme music must be playing and the audience clapping, flipping the V. peace sign, and the show is over. We are still sitting sucking balloons like so many colored nipples of ambrosia. The album is still playing, and I'm still sorry those musicians wanted to play to videotape machines and cued audiences between commercials. But things are different now. I suck on my balloon, hard. It doesn't matter. I'm happy, sitting there. Things just change and there's nothing...
...entrails. For despite the tocsins from Washington, despite intruders from overseas, the maligned frank furter has proved as irresistible in 1972 as it was in 1914 to a boy named Penrod. The hero of Booth Tarkington's Huckleberry novels thought the "winny-wurst" was "all nectar and ambrosia. ..it was rigidly forbidden by the home authorities." Like Penrod, contemporary Americans tend to ignore authorities; they consume 15 billion hot dogs every year - possibly even because of the warnings. Forbidden fruit tastes delicious; why not proscribed wieners...
What tastes like ambrosia to one man, observed the ancients, may sit like ashes on the tongue of another. Now modern medicine has discovered that a single tongue can be just as unpredictable -if its unfortunate owner suffers from idiopathic hypogeusia.* The newly identified ailment, described by National Institutes of Health researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association, attacks the senses of taste and smell to the point that the patients may become unable to detect all but the strongest flavors or aromas. In severe cases, a victim's favorite food odors may become offensive...
Bach never heard the entire Mass in his lifetime. It is said that he wrote it for God. It must not be easy to serve ambrosia to mere mortals, but yesterday the University Choir served God's feast with such humanity and compassion that it seemed like Peter preaching to the fisherman...