Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trillin approaches this kind of "effortless" writing about people in the section of Alice, Let's Eat where he discusses Fats Goldberg. In 12 pages he creates a marvelously warm and funny character portrayal of the New York City pizza baron. Fats, we learn, has a mania for inventing crazy and impracticable schemes, such as an early-morning catering service called Brunch a la Goldberg, and a "pizza pusher" device made of plastic that would allow someone to eat a piece of hot pizza without burning his fingers. Best whacky idea of all, perhaps, was for Fats (who used...
...elders. This year, the eighth in which Rochester has conducted the program, some 600 parents of 1,100 freshmen paid a small fee ($33) to learn about university life. Many are sending off their first child; some never went to college themselves. For all of them, says Administrator Arthur Goldberg, a 15-year veteran, "the orientation is partly an act of kindness. Parents have enormous levels of anxiety...
...bellyache about the tuition, either. Nor is there much audible concern about whether the kids' costly education will lead to a job. Today, school officials say, parents still seem to prefer a liberal education to a narrowly vocational one. "They are concerned that students not specialize too early," says Goldberg. "Many were caught in the vagaries of the job market themselves and had to go into a second career...
...without anybody's approval and with everybody's disapproval." Far from punishing her, Balanchine continued to give Gelsey the run of City Ballet's unparalleled repertory. She danced lead roles in his Symphony in C, "Rubies" in Jewels, Harlequinade and Concerto Barocco and in Robbins' Dances at a Gathering, Goldberg Variations and Scherzo Fantastique. She became a stellar member of one of the world's great companies...
However, the following day, the blue squad picked up free agent Bob Grady and walloped the Reds as Dan Goldberg blasted an unprecedented three consecutive home runs...