Word: canasta
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Growing up in Florida, the only sport is football. We don't have any traditions, so baseball is out of the question. We have no ice, so hockey is out of the question. And we think lacrosse is some card game resembling canasta that the old people play to pass the time...
...those revelations, and many more, are contained in a 13-page White House memo that was uncovered by a U.P.I, correspondent last week when he inquired whether the President plays canasta. The list was compiled in the summer of 1977 by a student intern who was assigned to the White House Office of Media Liaison. Why? Well, these are the kinds of questions often asked by reporters. And that, in turn, is a kind of commentary on the press. Many reporters would rather call the White House on such trivial questions than leaf through the book from which most...
Throughout the first decade of the Revolution women served their traditional subservient roles in the church: making clothes for the poor, serving coffee, playing canasta, and selling crafts to finance the church. In 1967 the government replaced the women as the supporter of the church, but not until 1974, when the Ecumenical Council of Cuba established a Department of Women, did women begin to "hear themselves in church." However, the Catholic Church, which does not belong to the Council, still does not have an organization for women...
...conversational ingenuity sort of petered out after a study of the Olympic athletes displayed in the the sports section of a newpaper and a resort to numbers, as they jotted down the scores of various games for me. The train pulled into their station during a game of canasta, and they trooped off. Janev rushed back momentarily, to shake my hand and present me with a left-over tin of meat; and the conductor showed up to throw me out of first class, now that my escort was gone...
...evenings are the exception these days for Horowitz. He has not had a drink in more than 20 years ("I don't need it; I am vivacious all the time"). He and his wife Wanda, the youngest child of the late Arturo Toscanini, much prefer a game of canasta with other couples, listening to records (Horowitz likes Wagner), or an occasional trip to the movies. The sound of Horowitz's Steinway is never heard at night. He practices ("I prefer to call it rehearsing") regularly every afternoon for an hour and a half, often with the Horowitz...