Word: epicureans
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...whose front windows looked out on a zoo, the back windows on a cemetery. The dim living room was papered in dark green-a "chamber of horrors," groaned Poet FitzGerald, "[in which my wife looks] like Lucretia Borgia." FitzGerald found "a sort of consolation" in "some curious Infidel and Epicurean Tetrastichs by a Persian of the Eleventh Century-as Savage against Destiny ... as Manfred-but mostly of Epicurean Pathos of this kind -'Drink-for the Moon will often come round to look for us in this Garden and find us not.'" After a few moons, his marriage collapsed...
...Generalissimo's greatest weakness is the state of his nation. Under his totalitarian order, Spain's old and decadent worlds of wealth and want are spinning ever farther apart. Life in Madrid is a pattern in extremes. The capital has Europe's most elegant and epicurean restaurants; among the best is the one operated by the famed German restaurateur Otto Horcher, who used to serve Nazi bigwigs in Berlin, Vienna and Paris. Store windows on the Gran Via display nylons, furs, silks, satins, perfumes...
...Places, by George Santayana, is the famed philosopher's unfinished autobiography. It tells of his boyhood in Spain and the tragic loneliness of his Spanish family in alien Boston, with a very brief account of his years at Harvard-a stoic recital of intellectual hardships written with epicurean felicity...
Died. G. Selmer Fougner, 56, U.S. gourmet, conductor, since Repeal, of the New York Sun column "Along the Wine Trail''; of a heart attack; in Washington. In devotion to his exquisite art, Columnist Fougner wrote several books on vinticulture and good living, founded no less than 14 epicurean societies, notably the famed "Les Amis d'Escoffier...
...pages, the whole Culbertson bridge career absorbs scarcely 100. Culbertson built up the game and himself as its expert to monstrous proportions, tired of it at last. A vacation, reading and thinking alone in Paris, made it all the more clear that Ely the "Philosopher," the "Epicurean," the "Idealist," must dethrone the "Family Man," the "Business Manager," the "Celebrity," the "Child." His story ends on the eve of an amicable divorce. An Appendix on the Mass Mind contains the most crackpot writing, the most valuable observations, in the book...