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...market value of Gauguin's paintings, but it is false in almost every detail. Gauguin's contact with the Noble Savage served mainly to give him the pox. He spoke barely a word of the Tahitians' language, understood nothing of their rituals and social structures, never ate yams or fish when he could afford tinned asparagus and claret, and was prone to copy his scenes of native life from tourist photographs purchased in the grubby colonial port of Papeete. The most advertised side of the legend is also false. Gauguin's art was neither freed...
...main disappointment of the day came in the medley where Steve Krausse, who placed third last year, failed to qualify for the finals. According to manager Glenn Koocher. Krausse was sick, Koocher said, "I don't know if it was something Steve ate or what, but at the beginning of that race he was too sick to give it his best effort...
...people "vulnerable to Castroite propaganda" (quote from ex-president Fuentes, Alerta, May 31, 1970, p. 3) education is not stressed. And as for how they eat, the director of U.N.'s INCAP Institute of Nutrition for Central America and Panama), his this to say. "The pre-Colombian Maya ate better than the people do today." ( El Imparcial, Jan. 6, 1964, cited in Thoma and Marjorie Mellville, "Guatemala: Analogue to Vietnam," New Politics, Winter, 1969, p. 18) Such U.N. studies have been described as "Communist documents" by Guatemala's ex-president Fuentes...
...commentary on woman's liberation "was the greatest thing they had seen in years," when he said to me, "You should eat more." Before I could protest he served me up a triple portion of squash and in his customary French accent added, "When I was a boy we ate whatever was put before us." Then, as I looked skeptically at the yellow mound on my plate, Mayer brought one hand to his rounding stomach and concluded, smiling, "That's why my generation is too heavy today...
After a short lunch (at which he ate tuna fish sandwiches, he said), he appeared at Holyoke Center with Burr and C. Douglas Dillion '31, chairman of the Board of the Overseers...