Word: feasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Alexander's Feast, consort. Medieval, Renaissance, and Early American music. Free. Sunday, October...
...Grande Bouffe (The Big Feast) ought, at least, to have been in bad taste, but it is in no taste at all. When the film was shown earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival, it provoked bitter arguments and a few fistfights. It must have been a slow year. The only curious thing about La Grande Bouffe is that, dealing with such subject matter, it turns out to be so thoroughly insipid...
...These short sections show a society struggling back to some kind of sufficiency after the human race has committed mass suicide during the Age of Ecology. Though comfort is meager and government insanely harsh, man is glorified as the Lord of Creation. The great annual holiday is called the Feast of Eater, honoring the legendary hero who long ago defied the order to kill himself. His name-no name is too obvious for Mano-was Dominick Priest...
...worst drought in Africa's recorded history has not yet killed many people. But for West Africa these days, the situation is quite literally one of feast or famine. In a massive multi-nation relief effort, grain sacks are piled high in Dakar, Abidjan and Lagos, the chief railheads for the drought-desolated nations of Chad, Niger, Mauritania, Upper Volta, Mali and Senegal. Their antiquated railroad networks cannot move grain quickly enough into the interior. The ongoing airlift offers the most plausible solution, but there are not enough aircraft. The result is that while mass famine has been averted...
...country fair on several tests of strength, and his sledgehammer rang a merry tune. Listen to the prizes! Who can say which is the Blue Ribbon of the Vastest Common Denominator? His speculation upon the possibilities of FBI or Kennedy interests involved in her death made a hearty feast for The National Enquirer; his countersuit with one of his sources who had charged him with plagiarism found a willing niche in the news pages of the New York Times--this was no mere litery matter; The Ladies Home Journal wanted a blockbuster excerpt; the 25 million readers of that most...