Word: bread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worst of all, said a squat Yorkshire digger, "They 'aven't larnt to talk English proper." Back of this pettiness was an unreasoning fear of unemployment that discourages hard work in all of Britain's heavy industries. Haunted by depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping coal in short supply. "They don't want coal," said a bitter Italian. "For them, la mancanza fa la forza-power through shortage...
...Bread & Butter. All Bedikian asks is that Paris judge for itself. In a Right Bank gallery last week, 65 of his canvases were on exhibit for the first time: a series of posed portraits done in his studio, and a second series of free impressions from his rambles around the Continent. The portrait work was bread & butter art-formal and flattering. But those he had dashed off on his travels showed a masterly touch. In a few confident strokes of smooth color, Bedikian could re-create the patient labor of a Capri fisherman's life, the lazy alertness...
...first U.S. television commercials back in 1941: when he saw the TV camera bearing down on him, he forgot every line he had carefully memorized. Announcers still shudder at the thought of the classic fumble made by Radcliffe Hall. He was racing the clock to complete a bread commercial before his show went off the air when, to his horror, he managed to turn the tagline "Always demand the best in bread!" into a whopping spoonerism...
...French weekly magazine Arts, Italian Socialist Ignazio Silone, ex-Communist novelist (Fontamara, Bread and Wine), protested the manner in which the word freedom is bandied about: "Whenever a number of intellectuals get together to debate the grave problems of our world, at least one of them, in an effort to ennoble the discussion, will begin talking of the Good, the True . . . After having heard the term 'freedom of thought' mentioned for the 54th time, a stale smell gradually invades the room, an odor which reminds me of fried fish. Discussions about Freedom are bound to remain sterile, unless...
...festive Sunday breakfast, much talk of a fine vacation. But for all the promises, the future doesn't look promising; the worm that seems to turn is still a leopard cursed with his spots. It is a chronicle of countless families whose struggle is less for bread than for something more than bread, and who are riot 1 ^o callous to love, but too burdened. If not successful, Sunday Breakfast is generally interesting and fitfully touching. One big difficulty is that it deals with a condition rather than a specific situation, and can only grind away at what...