Word: earthiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even considered, let alone practiced, where you tell a player to eat dirt or nails or manure, and he does it with the meniality of an army private at the feet of an impenetrable and grizzled sergeant-bastard-god-the-father. Ralph Goldston, who was without a doubt the earthiest most graphic and explicit person ever to instruct a Harvard athlete, who found that Cambridge was a nice place to visit but however to begin, to continue, or ever to consider coaching at. Goldston, a man who never fit into the black atmosphere, who never wanted to create, not tried...
...ambience you eat in, like the gallery, or the auditorium, or the special privacy you like to read in, is an inextricable part of the experience of eating. Ambience, even more than food itself, is cheap, obeying a peculiar law which says the earthiest, most honest atmospheres are found in some of the cheapest restaurants. Many people believe otherwise and pay for their innocence. Just as many artists and their agents capitalize on an easily influenced, indiscriminate public to sell at exorbitant prices undercooked works of art, so do many costly restaurants, dealing in an elegance disembodied from their product...