Word: flavorful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young Kilson left Ambler for Lincoln University, a Negro school in southeast Pennsylvania. The mystique of "Negritude" provided the campus with a distinctive flavor, making middle class students face up to something which they had previously wanted to cut out of their lives-the Negro's history. "Of course, Negritude is a romantic notion," Kilson admits, "but from it you can learn that Negroes share a culture. This means that individual Negroes should care about each other...
...until recently the U.S. colony in Saigon had gone largely unmolested by the Reds, and in the capital the war seemed strangely remote. The Americans even managed to create a Main Street flavor, complete with Brownie Scouts, a Rotary Club and a P.T.A...
Chocolate-covered ham is the prevailing flavor of Foxy, which borrows its name and some threads of plot from Ben Jonson's Volpone. Double-crossed by three rascally pals, Prospector Lahr gets his revenge by pretending that he is at death's door, with a fortune in nuggets to bestow. His greedy victims vie desperately with one another to show their love for Lahr. One of the sourdoughs, after snapping up a comely virgin for $33,000 on the Yukon's bullish bride market, even offers Bert the jus primae noctis. As for the gift, red-haired...
...brush and oil paints. Peter took to daubing like a duck to water. He painted all over the floor; he painted all over his keeper; he even painted all over a few canvases. He ate whole tubes of cobalt blue, leading to the speculation that its tart flavor was what inspired him to use it in his work...
...reasons for these differences are not incomprehensible. The Masters create the flavor of their Houses. Tutors and staff are picked by the Masters and can often be bullied by them into spending more time with the undergraduates. The Tenth House will make the problems of the Masters less demanding by cutting back overcrowding. Within the present system, however, the success of the Houses will depend to a great degree on the initiative of the Masters themselves...