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...What did your classmates talk about after I left? Did they say I was a dirty old man?" Queried the short, pot-bellied Ginsberg, whose long beard shows strands of grey...
With his tall and portly frame, his gleaming bald head and jovial, Buddha- like countenance, James Beard was central casting's dream of a food writer come true. Almost until his death last week of a heart attack following a kidney infection, Beard, 81, remained a monumental and genial presence in New York City food markets and restaurants, where his passion for good eating invariably proved contagious. Displaying a grand flair for showmanship refined by early training for the stage, he created dramatic settings for his cooking classes, for his writing and entertaining, and for his superb collection of majolica...
...Beard was unapologetically an American of the modern era, however, and in matters of food and drink helped to shape his own time to his own vision. He was the first of the durable food gurus, among them Julia Child and Craig Claiborne. In a career that spanned almost 50 years, he appeared in 1946 on one of the earliest television cooking shows and a decade later opened one of the first modern American cooking schools. The author of numerous newspaper and magazine columns and 23 cookbooks, he best displayed his penchant for simplicity in an early work, The James...
Raised as an Army brat, the son of a major, Bill Lindsey was 25 and wore a beard and ponytail when he first came to Citrus Park twelve years ago. The civil rights movement had convinced him that, "you know, you're supposed to be doing something." So he had joined VISTA, the domestic Peace Corps, which assigned him to Fort Lauderdale, just to "observe." A passing policeman questioned him about why he was living in a tough black neighborhood and added a warning that he would "be dead in three days...
...same levels as those of rich white districts, Lindsey now presides more or less benignly over some 2,000 housing units. Washington is putting up $200,000 to try his oasis system in another city, possibly Houston. But to Lindsey, who now has a $52,000 salary and no beard or ponytail, the big danger is that Government still tends to favor what he calls a failure model, imposing expensive programs on the poor and then blaming them for the predictable problems. "Public housing must be a privilege," Lindsey sums up. "You don't get in just because...