Word: beefsteak
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England was ruled-as it still is, though to a lesser extent-by a clubby elite. Nicolson's notes are full of first names and nicknames, and it is sometimes hard to tell whether he is talking about the Beefsteak Club or the House of Commons. Mixed with his uncommon sensitivity to great events there is an uncommon delight in gossip. This does not diminish the worth of the book. If history, as Carlyle said, is really the biographies of great men, it is also their gossip...
...collected in taxes. The cost of such xtravagance is West Germany's gaudi est inflation in 15 years. With consumer prices up almost 4% from a year ago, the German Hausfrau has to pay $1.08 for a dozen eggs, $2 a Ib. for not-so-tender beefsteak. Last week Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, his re-election safely behind him, finally announced a cut back in government spending...
...leaders of Russia, sneered the Chinese, were "selling horse meat as beefsteak, displaying a lamb's head while actually selling fillet of dog." In Mao Tse-tung's somewhat mixed-up butcher-shop imagery, that meant that the Red meat of true Marxist-Leninism was still being supplanted by goulash a la Khrushchev...
Western Europe at midyear is a sight to behold-especially through the eyes of the businessman. In the seventh straight year of boom, the Common Market is producing 11% more steel and 10% more autos than last year. Clamoring consumers have created shortages of such an everyday product as beefsteak. Almost everyone seems to be earning more and spending more than ever before. By most measures, Europe continues to expand faster than...
Mieux qu'un beefsteak...