Word: goulash
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...ultimate symbol of Brooklyn's disinstitutionalization is the virtual disappearance of The Accent, that ebullient glottal goulash of old Dutch, Yiddish, Irish, Italian and perhaps even Mohawk. "Only 1% of the kids are still dese, dem and dose types," says Speech Professor Bernard Barrow of Brooklyn College. "It is very difficult today to know a Brooklyn boy from a Bronx boy." Even The Bridge has lost its mystique. Not for three years, at least, the police report somewhat sadly, has a con man tried to sell...
...Director J. Lee Thompson smoothly stretches out the tension of a creepy bathtub sequence, followed by an explosive climax involving a booby-trapped safe. Finally, though, this who'll-do-it must be appreciated chiefly as a challenge to the ingenuity of three attractive performers, warming up goulash on the back burner...
Since then, the Soviet economic reform, marking the ideological bankruptcy of old-line Marxism, has become one of the most fascinating stories for Western journalists. It continued last week as the Russians made their latest and biggest move in the new direction (see THE WORLD, "On Toward the Goulash"). While their road is certainly not marked Private Enterprise, it is startlingly different from the rigidly planned, tightly structured Soviet economy of old-and it involves more than a passing bow in the direction of the profit motive in human affairs...
...peek.* Outside the Dove, midnight strollers stopped and gawked through the windows until Secret Service men had to line up in a barricade to keep the celebrity watchers at bay. By 1:45 a.m., there was a buffet-smoked salmon, paté de foie gras, French pastries, goulash and spaghetti. Then everyone went back to dancing and drinking. Jackie left by 2:45, but the party swirled on until...
...part, Soviet Communism in the 1960s has mellowed considerably as its leaders have discovered that goulash is more palatable than gunpowder. Under Khrushchev and his successors, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, the old, unbending creed of unconditional war against capitalism has yielded to the cautious dialogue of coexistence. It has had to, for the workers of the industrialized world today are not likely to be inveigled into violent assault on social systems that have given them so large a measure of prosperity...