Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALICE, LET'S EAT by Calvin Trillin...
...gourmet is someone who would not fly from New York to Nebraska simply to check out a steakhouse rumored to serve beef in the rough shape and size of a softball. A gourmand is someone who would. Author Calvin Trillin did. His conclusion: "I've tasted worse steaks." Trillin, however, has an edge on his fellow gluttons, whom he describes as Big Hungry Boys. A peripatetic correspondent for The New Yorker for the past eleven years, he has an excuse to roam the country at will, eating, sometimes quite literally, off the fat of the land. A writer...
Those daily briefings and meetings and handshakings and constant questions from the press. Presidents generally enjoy the rituals of office?otherwise they wouldn't be Presidents?but there also come times when they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...
...indicating the names of major streets,but has them for side streets, presumably working on the assumption that if you don;t know the name of the street you're on, you don't deserve to. Members of the elect know; everyone else has to guess. Thank you, John Calvin...
...women, the Annie Hallmark is tailored blazers, skirts and wrinkly fabrics, as exemplified in Calvin Klein's spring/summer collection. The paradox is that classic clothes end up looking like thrift shop purchases within a few steamy hours. One of the hottest-or coolest -fabrics around is Indian gauze, dyed with eggplant, saffron, cucumber and other natural substances, maybe even curry powder. Indian fabrics were among the highlights of a huge sales promotion of Indian merchandise mounted by Manhattan's Bloomingdale's last April. The material is so popular in New England that the Rhode Island-based...