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...Hostess school to learn the all-important rituals of cocktail and dinner parties, where so much governmental business is conducted. After paying only $28 for a six-weeks' course, they learn how to navigate in high heels, how to make artistic canapes, and how to argue with the butcher for a good cut of meat. Some students are fascinated with mixing food and drink, put together duodenum-rending concoctions. One teacher spent half an hour dissuading a determined student from combining sausages and fruit salad as a main course. Students even conquer the art of small talk, are taught...
...urgency in Che Guevara's pleas for coexistence reflected Cuba's increasing economic troubles. With something less than his usual cockiness. Fidel Castro announced last week that he was imposing meat rationing on the fertile "Pearl of the Antilles." All housewives must register with neighborhood butchers, who will assign them numbers. When meat arrives, the butcher is supposed to post, by turn, the numbers of housewives who may buy one-half pound per family member. The butchers do not know how often they will get deliveries from the government; the housewives do not know when-or if-their...
...author's deep love for all his characters, good and less good, and by the intensity of his inquiry. Some writers reveal things about their characters; Fuchs asks. It is his curiosity that takes the reader, not his revelations. One shares Philip's question about the butcher upstairs who makes a gas mask out of a basketball bladder and asphyxiates himself: "O Meyer Sussman! As a favor to a young writer, will you ask God for me what made you squeeze the basketball bladder over your face...
...vehemence and crash of color that soon won him the esteem of fellow painters. He was invited to join Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and others in a group of younger revolutionary artists called die Brücke (the Bridge), who had set up shop in 1905 in an empty Dresden butcher's store. A loner by instinct, he quit them after a year and a half, afraid that togetherness would dilute his grim, self-imposed sense of artistic mission. Similarly, he shunned the trail-blazing Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) circle, although he had the admiration of both Wassily Kandinsky...
...still another unseen aspect of the Greek way: Candia's fragrant food bazaar, the Minoan ruins near Knossos, and the high Lasethi plateau, crammed with hundreds of white-sailed windmills. In any of the little plateau villages, a traveler can buy his lunch merely by hailing, say, the butcher, who will put a table outside and provide wine, bread and cheese, while curious, good-natured Greeks in baggy trousers, sashes, boots, brocaded vests and fierce mustaches gather round and ask the stranger's name, occupation, origin and income...