Word: fowl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the platypus who cannot decide whether he is flesh or fowl, a new secies has in recent years appeared in the zoo of critical writing. This is the work--basically an outgrowth of feature journalism--which hovers indeterminately between straight biography and straight criticism without fulfilling the requirements of either form. The Private World of William Fauikner, by Robert Coughlan, is one of these books...
...increase in the dining rooms, and the sparkle of conversation would be supplemented by champagne and sparkling burgundy. Of course, the academic side of the University could help in its own small way with snifters before each class. Red wine before a meaty lecture, and white wine before a fowl...
...m.p.h., Lancia, Nazzaro, Victor Hemery and Louis Chevrolet. But the toplofty language of the racing notices enraged many a Long Island citizen from the first: "All persons are warned against using the roads between the hours of 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. . . . Chain your dogs and lock up your fowl." By 1910, more than the local farmers were embattled. That year, the crowds were so large and unmanageable that four spectators were killed, and 22 more ended up in hospitals. That race sounded the knell of U.S. road racing for many a year...
...wedding present proceeded to decorate the drab walls. His sketches were charming and nonabstract. In an odd corner he painted a thoroughly representational bloomer girl, to remind Jean of his bachelor days. In the bedroom he put a nude, and in the kitchen, still lifes of fish and fowl. In the living room the master did a ten-ft. allegorical mural in which Huguette Ramie is a medieval lady waving to Jean, a knight in shining armor...
Grand Hotel. At a $75,000 white-tie party last week, the President formally opened the 400-room Hotel Tamanaco in the capital city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...