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Word: feasting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next few weeks are a banner time for would-be participants, with auditions going on everywhere at once. On the other hand, if strutting about the stage is not your raison d'etre, then you'll just have to nurse your appetite while you wait for the feast to begin...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Stage | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

second course. Chief nourisher in life's feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 20, 1976 | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...FEAST OF SNAKES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fangs | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Georgia-born Harry Crews has pushed this proposition about as far as it can go. In such short novels as Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit, The Hawk Is Dying and Car (in which a man eats a car), Crews customized gothic cliches into literary hot-rods. A Feast of Snakes is his most outlandish vehicle to date. Set in Mystic, Ga., site of an annual rattlesnake hunt, the book gathers its atmosphere from the frenzies and violence associated with religious primitivism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fangs | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Second, Solomon has organized his "feast of images" around the basics of Chinese life: such matters as eating habits, the respect given to the written word and fear of isolation from the community. China's political behavior-something that has eluded Western understanding for centuries-derives, in the author's view, from these psychological and cultural fundamentals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chinese Banquet | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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