Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Melville Goodwin, U.S.A., by John P. Marquand. Two more Marquand males-this time a general and a newsbroadcaster -find the flavor of success mixed with the taste of ashes (TIME...
...Class will have the usual foreign flavor, as girls from five other countries are expected to register...
...McNally), Chandler soon bowls over all the local heavyweights and moves on to the big city. Booed by the fans as a dirty fighter and damned by the newspapers as an inept one, Chandler nevertheless bulls his Neanderthal way to the championship. With none of the authentic prize-ring flavor of Champion, Iron Man has a hollow ring, and badly dents the laws of probability by having Chandler dethroned by an old pal from the same tiny mining town...
...their complementary talents. Too much the speculative philosopher to say exactly how, Ussher does leave a gentle trail of hints. The Jews, he implies, might take less heed of the Talmud's warning ("Go not near the Grecian wisdom-it has no fruit but only blossoms") and flavor their love of practical purpose with a dash of the gentile gift for the fanciful. Gentiles, on the other hand, might do well to stop hymning their capacity for "the purest intuitions," which have a nasty habit of emerging in the form of "mob spirit...
...happy coincidence, this mixture perfectly conveys the flavor of Shulman's humor. Readers whose palates were tickled by Shulman's previous concoctions (Barefoot Boy with Cheek, Sleep Till Noon) will find these stories just about as pleasant to swallow as anything he has written. People who have never tried Shulman might be well advised to test themselves first with a Varsity Voom...