Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pauses of a strenuous lecture tour and now put forth as something resembling a novel, Going Native exhibits Dr. Gogarty's prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur is gone, Ouseley, grandeur is gone . . .") and a sufficient hint that Ouseley...
Since then, scientists have produced a spearmint with lemon flavor, bigger tomatoes, peaches, strawberries. Dr. Blakeslee began to be harassed by letters from bald men and barren women asking if his "miracle drug" would grow hair or insure fertility. These impertinences irritated him so much that several times he almost wrote a letter to the newspapers...
Gene Lovett is the only returning out-fielder with Varsity experience, but Mike Rice, the fleet Yardling leader of a year ago, and Les Pitchford seem headed for stardom in Crimson pastures. Lee Hartstone and Bill Wood will add the veteran flavor to Coach Stahl's out-field operatives...
...look at the show, chat with each other and pile up punch glasses at the base of the statues-agreed that artistically the choice of Argentina to start the Pan-American series of exhibitions had been sound. Like U. S. art, that of the Argentine has a strong flavor of the melting pot, has lately been turning from European influences to its native resources. Many of the 236 paintings, prints, water colors and pieces of sculpture in the show were inspired by the École de Paris, from staid academic works to surrealism. Others were indigenous. Noteworthy...
...Ballet Caravan hired no fancy-named Russian choreographers, did no classical Russian ballets. Its 20-year-old dancers concentrated on U. S. subjects, did their own staging, hired U. S. composers to write their music, added a distinct U. S. flavor to their classical leaps and entrechats. They were so successful that Impresario Kirstein soon began to lake expenses...