Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spiritual though his purpose is, Capon relishes the secular. He regards any meal as incomplete without a good wine. Would St. Paul, Calvin or Luther, he asks, have opened "bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before a service?" He dismisses synthetic foods as almost blasphemous and his gorge rises on the subject of dieting: "When you fast, fast; when you feast, feast." Neither prim nor prudish, he considers women, like pastries, a special delight: "A woman is like an aging strudel-not always crisp on the outside, but always good on the inside...
...young buyers by offering the Maverick in colors that were created at a group brainstorming session, presumably held in a cornfield. The colors include Freudian Gilt, Original Cinnamon, Thanks Vermilion and Hulla-Blue. The standard gag among the executives is that the company will entertain any name except "Statutory Grape...
...alive after a year that saw the breaking up of Cream, Traffic, the Steve Miller Blues Band, the Buffalo Springfield, the Experience, the Grateful Dead, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, the Nice, the Fugs, the Zombies, the Electric Flag, the Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Moby Grape, the Byrds, the Jeff Beck Group, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band...
...understand why conservationists are interested in natural resources. Clifford Hardin, Secretary of Agriculture, evidently does not have any policy for farmers, but his most important decisions will probably be on emergency supplies for undernourished families in the Deep South, and relations with huge agricultural complexes like the California grape companies and their employees. His book, Overcoming World Hunger, could indicate a general concern for problems like these. In the Post Office Winton Blount will probably lend added support to the recent business advisory committee recommendations to turn the Post Office into a public corporation...
...your very perceptive Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing," you overlooked perhaps the sweetest sour grape ever uttered: On March 9, 1832, Abraham Lincoln said, "If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...