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...Juan that is significant to a contemporary audience. As George Bernard Shaw pointed out, the prototypical Don Juan was proposed in legend as the enemy of God, and Translator Kenneth Cavender uses this phrase as the play's subtitle, instead of Moliere's "The Feast of the Statue." Brustein goes further, presenting the Don as not merely a sex-obsessed boudoir-supremacist womanizing his way to damnation, but as a supranatural embodiment of alienated man, offered up as an atoning sacrifice. This quasi-religious element is pointed up by a Prologue-Epilogue that frames Moliere's play...
Holton said, "It was not exactly what I would call a love-feast. He said that he was moved by our visit, that he felt that it's all a tragic situation. But he refused to speak on the record, and we refused to go off, so we had an hour-and-a-half of presenting views...
...Love Feast. Despite Kirk's retreat, he had profited from the bizarre affair. For one thing, he won for his cause a powerful friend in court: the Justice Department. The Nixon Administration sought desperately to defuse the situation and avoid confronting the maverick Republican Governor with troops. Before Kirk caved in, Attorney General John Mitchell, in what one Kirk aide called a "love feast," talked by phone with the Governor at least a dozen times. Kirk had the Administration boxed in: almost any federal show of force would have hurt Nixon in the South...
...attack took the form of a 293-page report called The Chemical Feast. It was based on a two-year study of the FDA by Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader and 20 student volunteers, most of them specialists in medicine and law. Their report accused the agency of conspiring with the food industry to defraud consumers and even to endanger their health; FDA regulations, they argued, read like a catalogue of favors to special interests. Specifically, the agency was accused of allowing the sale of "enriched white flour" that is actually stripped of most nutrients, of permitting meat packers to increase...
...Alfred drive home. On the way she stopped several places, but the hogans were dark and the hearths cold. In a canyon by moonlight she gathered a handful of moose moss and an armload of wija grass. Not a feast, but enough for the likes of Sam. He banged away at 'La Primavera' while she cooked Keeble meatballs with garlic and moss. Delicious AND good for your...