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...poor, teachers seem to have no more success than mothers in getting children to eat their vegetables. "If we allowed children to select their food instead of putting all of it on their trays, we could eliminate a lot of waste," says Eastman's food-service supervisor, Edith Sanderson. "Nobody can afford to feed garbage cans." But 12% to 15% of the meals get thrown...
...Edith Sitwell, Victoria Glendinning...
...Edith's protégé-like the young Dylan Thomas or the expatriate Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, whom she loved for 30 years with all her virgin heart -was to become the object of an awesome and sometimes smothering loyalty, feudal in its fierceness...
...dregs of the literary population have risen as one worm to insult me," Edith stormed in a typical rhetorical outburst...
When World War II came, Edith knitted socks, while listening to Debussy on her wind-up gramophone and downing large tumblers of gin. The Sitwell legend that had persevered since World War I seemed ready for retirement, along with the Empire...