Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flavor which separates this book from other Bemelmans, however, is derived from the title ploy, identified as "The Delicate Art of Self-Aggrandizement"--previously discussed by the English wit, Stephen Potter, as "Lifesmanship...
...difficult to see how Senator Taft can lend a ceremony any non-partisan flavor, especially when he arrives amid a welter of handouts, Taft buttons, and all the other sundries of campaigning. The Young Republicans did not help much by advertising the celebration as a Taft question-and-answer program either. Even the speeches, so trite and innocent on the surface, were hardly unblemished paeans on behalf of patriotism...
...students from all over Greater Boston will migrate to Memorial Hall tomorrow evening for the annual spring "Fun Fair" sponsored by the International Student Association. The gloomy Victorian interior will be covered over with gaudy travel posters to dispell the hall's somber atmosphere and provide the proper international flavor...
...MacLeish and Robert Lowell, and fiction by William Faulkner. The pilot issue, foundation officials explained, is not an exact standard by which to judge Perspectives; only about half the pilot articles will be in the first issue. Nevertheless, the pilot issue gave the whole project-unless substantially changed-the flavor of a "little magazine's" fragile view of American culture, blown up to Ford-plant size...
...Digging Me, Daddy?" Author Ellison's Harlem scenes are done with dash and flavor, and the lingo is right: "Well, git with it! ... You digging me, daddy? Haw, but look me up sometimes, I'm a piano player and a rounder, a whisky drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book...