Word: goulashes
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...lunch break came near noon. Downstairs, the ladies of the local nondenominational church were collecting $1.50 a plate at a spread featuring baked beans, meat pie, green bean and onion casserole, goulash, breads and cake. Then the meeting reconvened...
First there was "goulash Communism"-the term coined in the early 1960s to describe Nikita Khrushchev's insistence that Red economies satisfy consumer needs instead of concentrating only on the development of heavy industry. Now the Soviet bloc is following an even more heretical strategy that might be called credit-card Communism-the customers in this case being governments rather than individuals. Totally violating Marxist prejudices, the Soviet Union and its six economic allies in Eastern Europe* are trying to modernize their antiquated economies by borrowing heavily from their supposed class enemies, the capitalists of the West...
...second poem, "Two Birds: A Dialogue," is a sarcastic, earthy blast against what Chinese editorials have long called the "goulash Communism" of the Soviet Union. It depicts a conversation between two birds, one a giant roc that soars over the earth, with "the blue sky on its back," and the other a timid sparrow "scared stiff" in his bush. The world is in chaos ("Gunfire licks the heavens,/ Shells pit the earth"), and the sparrow wants to escape to "a jeweled palace in Elfland's hills." The roc replies angrily...
...mind waiting for a table or sharing your table with an artsy type this is as nice a place as any to get a sandwich or a snack of cheese and crackers. The luncheon menu is varied--the offerings range from a simple BLT sandwich to Hungarian goulash. Beer and wine is served, but the coffees are your best bet. The Parrot Viennese Velvet (coffee with ice cream, brazilia, and whipped cream) is the best of them. The Parrot stays open at night with a slightly more expensive version of the lunch menu...
...mind waiting for a table or sharing your table with an artsy type this is as nice a place as any to get a sandwich or a snack of cheese and crackers. The luncheon menu is varied--the offerings range from a simple BLT sandwich to Hungarian goulash. Beer and wine is served, but the coffees are your best bet. The Parrot Viennese Velvet (coffee with ice cream, brazilia, and whipped cream) is the best of them. The Parrot stays open at night with a slightly more expensive version of the lunch menu...