Word: eating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice President mentioned that he himself was the son of a California grocer and was reared in a modest economic background. In turn, Kozlov confided a rare item of autobiography: "I was one of nine children. Five of them died in childhood because of a lack of enough to eat. Two were killed in the war. There is only my sister and myself left...
...Europe's classical capitalist economists, e.g., Adam Smith, Ricardo, held that the worker was forever doomed to a ''minimum subsistence wage.'' Karl Marx said, in effect: ''Sheep of all countries, unite! Together we shall bring about the Revolution of the sheep and . . . eat the wolves.'' Quite apart from the typical European unrealism of this notion, Bruckberger points out, what the Russian people did, in reality, was to trade one set of wolves for an even more ravenous lot. In a fascinating confrontation of personalities and social aims, Bruckberger argues that Henry...
Class members and friends whipped through 1400 lobsters, each of which weighed in at 1 1/2 pounds. The head caterer, now in his fifteenth year serving hungry alumni at Essex, watched '34 eat up 250 pounds of chicken salad, 300 quarts of sherbet, and 125 gallons of coffee. His firm also fed 500 younger children of the Class at their own picnic at Manchester Beach...
...gotta sleep in the Colosseum; you gotta eat the dirt of the Colosseum." and accosted prostitutes by asking. "Are you my mother?" Says George Garrett...
Gagaku's dances unfold stories of childlike simplicity in a context of barbaric splendor: a Mongol wanders the forest seeking a golden snake, finds it coiled at his feet, crouches in his stiffly encrusted robes to eat it, performs an angular dance of joy; four dancers in court dress, with cherry blossoms in their headgear, unfold with caressing steps from a circle, suggesting the blossoms in the imperial garden opening under the May sun. Even without masks, the dancers' faces are as unwaveringly expressionless as carvings in jade. The body movements are slow, solemn, almost architectural, with...