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...latest blast, a 24,000-word article in People's Daily: "A privileged bourgeois stratum has emerged in Soviet society." In fact, Khrushchev's "phony Communism" is restoring the "forces of capitalism" and substituting for the class struggle "the struggle for a good dish of goulash." It is the "Communism of the American way of life, and Communism seeking credits from the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: My Daddy Can Beat Your Daddy Several Centuries from Now | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...manners, immense ego and ungovernable temper who at one time or another turned on virtually every one of his friends and alienated most of the musicians of Vienna. His idea of a joke was to dump a bowl of gravy on a waiter who had brought him the wrong dish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Emerson of Music | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Timmy wounds his mother by forgetting that waffles used to be his favorite breakfast dish and enrages his father by refusing to attend Mass. More threateningly, he has sensed some of the sources of his parents' snarlingly bad relationship and is eager to discover more. The revelations come steadily but not patly. The frustrations of wife and life have made John irascible, intolerant and bitter. Nettie is sad-eyed, stiff-bodied, and given to sulky silences. She has ruled the family by veto power; he, in turn, has mutilated his wife's heart with incessant drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Theme Is Thorns | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

...Canadian wheat when demand outran Italian supplies. But Agnesi spaghetti also sells for more, and proud Nonagenarian Paolo further insists that it be consumed correctly-with only a fork and with as little sauce as possible. Shocked when he heard that Germans were eating spaghetti as a side dish to sausage, Agnesi dispatched Imperia's best chef to the Munich trade fair to cook up 35,000 servings and teach the Hausfrauen their spaghetiquette. Germany is now the company's second biggest export market, after Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Stretching Spaghetti | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...ultimate test of the cartoonist's skill at character definition-or character assassination-is the presidential portrait. The available evidence to date (see cuts) suggests that the man with the dish face and the donkey's ears has not yet been pinned to the sketch boards of the U.S. press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoonists: Finding a President | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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