Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which formed there permanently closed it, so that no food could pass to his stomach. Surgeons had made a neat little hole in his stomach wall, inserted a rubber tube. Mr. V.'s method of eating was necessarily messy: he would first chew his food to enjoy the flavor, then spit it into a syringe, insert the syringe into his tube, and thus fill his stomach. Through the tube Dr. Carlson could observe, to his heart's content, Mr. V.'s sometimes quiescent, often restless stomach. For 13 years Mr. V. was employed in the laboratory, until...
Such is the flavor of My Name is Aram. Effortless, delicate and slightly boozy, the little tales carry a sense of comic-poetic anarchy whose only name is Saroyan. For those who get the hang of it, there are several solid miracles of literary slack-wire walking. There is less of the brassiness and tinhorn rhetoric with which he usually destroys his effects. There is more self-effacing attention to business than usual. Saroyan will always be a question of taste; but another book or two, and he may also be one of the best and most original writers alive...
...Family Choir, also on Victor Records. The Trapps' unaffected singing of this delightful music is a treat for jaded ears. The singing has that perfect fusion and sympathy of all voices one finds among the members of a fine string-quartet, and you will not tire of the chamber flavor as you might the brilliance of a larger chorus. Also in the line of vocal music are the ancient French carols sung on a single Columbia Record by the Strasbourg Cathedral Choir, music more of the folk quality than the Bach chorales, but of a similar fresh spirit...
...mike in the studios of Manhattan's WMCA. Some of them are unhappy about their love life, some are moody about lack of cash. But whatever their problems, they are usually unabashed in discussing them, which gives the Good Will Hour, in which they participate, a fine confessional flavor. All they get for reciting their troubles is the advice of a small, damp-eyed, foxy-looking gentleman, sharp in manner and dress, who is the current top in aerial soul searchers...
...Only newspapers with comprehensive foreign coverage of their own are the New York Times and Chicago News. "Between 1914 and 1924, the Times all but achieved Dominion status"; now it has a " mild but diminishing British flavor."Cost of the News's foreign service...