Word: foos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That bright view of the future include some basic assumptions: 1) the cold wa will worry along at its present intensity draining goods and manpower into defense against a catastrophic war that will no occur; 2) the U.S. will continue to foo the bill for expensive space exploration and aid to foreign countries; 3) most important of all, the nation's technology will continue to improve, for freedom from want is not in the cards for a static society. Some sample predictions...
...Foo Hsing Theater is a forceful reminder that Broadway starves the senses. Performing centuries-old classics. The Beautiful Bait and The White Snake, this Chinese theater troupe refreshes the eye by splashing the stage with color. It fills the air with exotic sounds. It galvanizes the playgoer physically with the grace and discipline of bodily action...
...while, a small side-stage group of instrumentalists brews a weird and furious counterpoint of sound. The drum mer underscores and paces the action with the charged beat of an Oriental Gene Krupa. After its two-week stay in Manhattan, the Foo Hsing Theater, which has toured the U.S. from coast to coast and toast to toast, opens in Mexico City...
...constructing his food empire, which now stretches from frozen egg foo yung to a fruit pie-filling firm called Northland Foods. Paulucci adhered to a two-point credo: "Cut out the middleman" and "Take advantage of waste." Shopping for bargains around the world, Chun King buys beef from Australia and shrimp from Ecuador, contracts directly with Chippewa Indians for wild rice and with Oklahoma and Texas farmers for mung beans, from which bean sprouts are grown. The simpler ingredients, such as celery and mushrooms, Chun King produces for itself-and here the profiting from waste enters. When Paulucci found...
...first, although the character of the Chinese remains as opaque as egg foo yung to him, the major handles his command well enough. When a bridge must be blown up he blows it, although the action strands thousands of refugees. Eventually the girl leaves him, though she loves him. In an overexplicit curtain speech, Stewart says contritely that he has learned the bitter lesson of power...