Word: freezers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Telling the Time. In summer there were weekend fishing excursions to Smithfield Pond ("They had lovely beaches, and the water wasn't too cold. I can remember how we used to ride the horses into the lake"). Birthdays were always special celebrations, with ice cream from the hand freezer on the back stoop. Soon after her twelfth birthday, Maggie went to work on Saturdays at Green Brothers' for io/ an hour. As a high school girl, she often filled in as night switchboard operator at the local telephone company. One of her frequent callers, who usually wanted...
...negotiations ground on day and night, some delegates complained they were tired and wanted to go home. But the U.S. let it be known that U.S. Ambassador Whiting Willauer's freezer was stocked with food for several weeks and that Secretary of State Herter was prepared to stay and consult as long as necessary. Little by little the soft-line advocates were stiffened by orders from home or by becoming convinced in Costa Rica that failure to act would do irreparable damage to the inter-American system. At last only Venezuela's Arcaya was left leading the crumbling...
...Flowers. By 1928 Mayakovsky was disillusioned enough to write The Bedbug, a satire of Communist society so pointed that even the dullest party hack was set to squirming. His villain is Prisypkin, a smug, card-carrying, vulgar proletarian who typifies the new Soviet man Prisypkin is stored in a freezer, and by 1978, in the last half of the play. Russian life has become so dehumanized that love tobacco, vodka, even flowers have become half-forgotten matters of history. Poor Prisypkin is now restored, and because of his simple humanity, he quickly becomes a curiosity. He asks for books...