Word: globs
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...word-orgy. So did the Romans-bacchanalia. Even the underdeveloped Brazilians have a cute word-suruba. In the '30s, I took part in similar divertissements with graduate students of Buenos Aires University; de rigueur attire for the young ladies was a lettuce leaf kept in place with a glob of whipped cream...
...defense of Paul Ricard, inventor of the finest drink since sour mash [Feb. 25]. Your reporter, probably an undercover man for the W.C.T.U., has slandered the drinking man's Thomas Edison in saying that ice added to Ricard's pastis turns the licorice into a gooey glob. I modestly claim the record for annual consumption by an American of this delightful brew, and have yet to find a single glob in any of my well-iced drinks. Retract your calumny against this benefactor of mankind...
...today's world map looks like a conglomerate glob of silly putty, smashed by a hammer and stuck together again, it is because the new nations are in large part literally and lineally the heirs of their colonial history. Physically, they are artifacts of 19th century imperialism's division of the spoils, confined within arbitrary frontiers contrived by colonial mapmakers. Psychologically, they are the heirs of Europe's own fierce nationalism, which fueled the race for empire. As 19th century British Philosopher Walter Bagehot observed, political man is a highly imitative animal. The subjugated peoples...
...Dijon in the Burgundy wine country. Eight bottling plants have also been opened in other European nations and in North Africa: this year Ricard is contemplating the American market. One problem: Americans, who like ice in their drinks, will discover that it congeals the licorice into a gooey glob...
...twist to parody the Last Supper, and the "sons of the Danube" show up in SS uniforms. The corps de ballet wear costumes that come close to perfection in their imitation of nudity, and their dances have an angular brutality. Faust appears as the prisoner of a giant glob of seaweed, suspended above the stage in a play of lights that have the harsh glare of misery. Mephistopheles is a sexual chameleon-a lover of "perverse roses," a force of violent poetry...