Word: chowdered
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HARVARD'S APPROACH to faculty salaries is as different from Texas A&M's as clam chowder and chili. The vicissitudes of the university marketplace, so carefully weighed at the Texas institution, are all but ignored at Harvard, officials say. "Our differentials between salaries in the sciences and humanities are smaller than they are at almost any other university in the country." Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky has boasted. "This has an important impact on the morale of the entire Faculty: we're all engaged in a common intellectual enterprise...
...know, being an outsider and all. You see. "To the outsider, the manifestations of cool may look arbitrary. That's because cool is selective in the way it reveals itself. It isn't elitist, but it knows its own. "I guess it just doesn't know this chowder-brain--statements like. "Cool is the essence of style--daring, personal, rare," seemed somewhat funky in the early pages, but became a little asinine in the section on "threads...
...pets de nonne (the name suggests they are gaseous). Willan also serves up historical tidbits. For example: Proust's madeleines came from Commercy in Lorraine; the word restaurant originated in Paris more than 200 years ago, when an innkeeper started offering bowls of bouillon known as restauratifs, and chowder is derived from chaudière, a cauldron in which fishermen pooled their catch...
...Yankee Magazine Cookbook (Harper & Row; $15.95) also discusses the origins of chowder, while adding that the tomatoey Manhattan version of the soup is an apostasy to be denounced from every down East pulpit. A charitable explanation is that Maine chowder is made from "an elongated bivalve," while the New York pretender uses inferior quahogs, "and no State of Mainer in his right mind eats them." If he had to make a chowder out of quahogs, Yankee affirms, a Mainer would put tomatoes in it too, "and garlic and beach plums and chestnuts and about anything else he could think...
...double-teammate of Smerczynski's. Winchester's DONNIE ALLARD, disagrees. "I like the Union Oyster House," the quarterback and right fielder maintains. Why? "Because of the clam chowder--I love clam chowder," he says...