Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steaks, roasts and other beef cuts that now constitute 50% of the average American's meat menu cost 11% more last month than they did a year ago. Pork is 16.5% higher; in many places, pork loin has risen from 590 a lb., to 790, and bacon costs as much as $1 a lb. As shoppers substituted chicken for beef and pork, poultry prices inevitably rose by 7% (current U.S. average price for fryers...
...century of Cimabue and Giotto, of St. Francis, St. Dominic and St. Thomas: an epoch of religious renascence that brought forth two major religious orders and the last great golden flower of Scholastic philosophy. But it was also the age of Marco Polo, Charles of Valois and Roger Bacon: an epoch of magnificent secular energy that propelled the rise of the middle classes and the independent city states, divided Italy between the party of the Pope (Guelph) and the party of the Emperor (Ghibelline) and embroiled Italians in a century-long civil war that concluded with the collapse...
...which he would be totally responsible for all his misdeeds. He longed to be a guerrilla warrior. But offering a "good left opposition" inside the New Deal was a thing of the remote past; by the Haunted Fifties, America's left hand shrunk like a fried bacon strip. America had become a dinosaur with huge tail and tiny head. Our natural hostility to "the others," says he, ballooned into a drive to "kill the bastards and co-exist with ourselves...
...spending whatever funds are necessary to tunnel the expressway under the area, even though the aboveground one-mile segment as now planned will cost an estimated $35 million. But this is the kind of issue on which honest men may honestly differ. Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Chief Edmund Bacon (TIME cover, Nov. 6), who is as much concerned with esthetic values as any other planner alive, defends the elevated highway: "Burying the expressway would cut off the motorist's view of what we are trying to do, to develop Society Hill...
This year Hobbes, Locke, Bacon, and other "classics" were dropped from a reading list that now centers almost exclusively around late 19th and 20 the Century commentators. Last year's sophomores learned about the biological concept of culture through reading, in chronological order, Mill, Darwin, Spencer and come. This year the sophomores read only Kluckhohn, treating the concept as a concept rather than as a study in intellectual history...