Word: butterly
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...high-minded theories of education are not much use to young people thinking about bread and butter. Inside the colleges, anxious students have often become prematurely professionalized and disturbingly competitive. At New York's Columbia University, for example, one-third of the freshmen have enrolled in pre-med courses. "As Americans, we really prize a degree, but I'm not sure we prize an education," muses Georgetown Dean Royden B. Davis...
...group has given more meaning to Brillat-Savarin's statement than the chefs of France. They are the world's gastronomers royal. But they exact from their followers a literally heavy price -in calories and cholesterol. Their creations call for churns of butter, streams of cream and eggs by the dozen. With the late great Chef Fernand Point, they cry with all the fervor of a Richard III, "Du beurre! Donnez-moi du beurre! Toujours du beurre...
...hold the butter! Dam the cream...
There's a nostalgia song, called "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More"; a shoplifting song, "Peanut Butter Conspiracy," about how you never know when the hard times'll hit you, so you better keep your touch; a simple bouncing love song called "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"; and a ghost-conjuring ballad about an adultery/murder/suicide and how the newspapers missed the human tragedy: An it's just a Cuban crime of passion Messy and old-fashioned... Anjejos and knives a-slashing But that's what the people like to read about Up in America...
...Dunster, complains that most of the time she "can't eat the stuff." As a result, Okonjo says, she's been to the dining hall only six times this semester--and then only because her roommates reported that the menu included hamburgers, which she'll eat seasoned with butter and pepper...