Word: cornucopia
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Lederer relates a cornucopia of anecdotes about literary figures. Stories about Helen Keller who was freed from her "dark, silent prison" and taught to speak, read and write, or George Orwell, who laid down six of the most important ground rules of the writer's art, instill the work with human interest...
...noble attempts did not work very well. A privileged class developed anyway, and everybody had less of everything. But still they made the effort, realizing too late what Marx had said all along: A communist revolution in an undeveloped country means a redistribution of poverty, not a cable-ready cornucopia. Still, this cultural and political Siberia gave Soviets security. Their security was cheap, badly designed, and falling apart. But it was security...
...gloom in Kuwait these days. Beneath the funereal skies lies a country that is recovering its spirit. Electricity and water plants are working again, and the phones are beginning to function too. In the capital the giant two-floor Sultana Supermarket is once more a cornucopia of fresh vegetables and delicacies from around the world...
...unification also means new life and light, a cornucopia of opportunity, freedom and the little courtesies available wherever the customer is king. "They're so nice," chortled housewife Gerda Hubner as she walked out of a brand new Meyer food market on East Berlin's Leipziger Strasse. She carried a shopping bag with a few meager purchases -- milk, oranges, bread and cheese. She also carried a yellow rosebud. "They're giving these to all the ladies," she said. "They really want our business." The Meyer chain is one of hundreds of West German companies that have moved with lightning speed...
...cornucopia of wealth and well-being has brought some strange insecurities. "Luxus is a way of trying to making yourself different from others," complains Munich socialite Heidi Schoeller, the wife of a banker. "Money doesn't mean very much in a society where everyone...