Word: flavourous
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...America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us," wrote M.F.K. Fisher in the first of her books on cooking and eating, Serve it Forth, "We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind...
Your article, "Excessive Walkouts Plague A.R.T. Show" finds us two very disturbed. You write to us that this play of the A.R.I., "CIVIL warS," is not accessible to American audiences because of its European flavour. Reading this, we became very excited. Having attended the finest universities on the Continent, we hurried to see "CIVIL warS...
...start by the slick professional Playbillpublicity machine, and it has in fact played with phenomenal success in several countries. Still as we watch the red-faced clownish musician attempting to play a dozen battered instruments taped around a bedframe, we can recapture some of the extemporaneous, frantically amateurish flavour of a uniquely American institution that traces its origins to the days of Mr. Bones and Mr. Tambo...
...cigarette paper and then smoked it? Who picked a flower and put it in a glass of water? Who ate a vanilla ice on September 14, 1966, at twenty-five minutes to midnight, thinking that it was an eternal ice-cream cone, an eternal ice, an eternal yellow-white flavour?"). He is also adept at playing those "In" games French readers love, the sounding of literary resonances from Pascal to Robbe-Grillet...
...second story of any length is a piece by Elizabeth Sussman, a sophomore at Vassar, who took a writing course in Cambridge this summer. The Flavour of Mortality is concerned with two children adopted by a couple which lives from April to April in futile hope of the husband's promotion. The characters of the children are drawn with some subtlety; the boy's awkwardness and introspection are developed effectively, as are the main problems of the story--the uselessness of the parents' lives, and the quietly savage intensity of the boy's attempt to escape the "mortality...