Word: hares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western delusions but also compliments them with imitation. There are the lyrics of a popular Indian song inspired by a movie that found God in a hash pipe: "Take a drag. Take a drag. I'm wiped out./ Say it in the morning. Say it in the evening./ Hare Krishna Hare Rama Hare Krishna Hare Rama." There are also Western notions on better transcendence through chemistry. Mehta notes that young foreigners frequently sell their passports to buy drugs; the documents are reported stolen and easily replaced at local embassies. She also reports that villagers who refused to take smallpox...
...standard North American Christmas dinner about as predictable as a Norman Rockwell rendering, the time has come to borrow from other countries their versions of foods that seem traditionally American: the turkey, the yam, the potato, the pumpkin. For starters, how about pumpkin soup? Or bawd bree, the rich hare broth of Scotland? It might be followed by Colombia's pato borracho (drunken duckling) or Gaelic roastit bubblyjock wi' cheston crappin (roast turkey with chestnuts) and rumblede-thumps (creamed potatoes and cabbage). Dessert could be Mexican torta del cielo, or a rum-flavored nut tart from France...
...enough to provide the formula for homard à l'Américaine. Albertine pleads for skate with black butter; King delivers it. Marcel wrote affectionately of éclairs, marrons glacés, strawberry juice, orangeade, chocolate cake, oysters, petite marmite, roast goose ("superbly limbed and shining with gravy"), hare a l'Allemande and venison that was "dark, brown-fleshed, hot and soused [with red wine and cognac], over which the red-currant jelly has laid a cool, sweet surface." These and many, many other delights are recollected in tranquillity. Side by side with Marcel, Dining delivers the soul...
...President Bok and the Corporation have reluctantly made face-saving gestures, such as providing Nieman Foundation fellowships to the South African jornalists Percy Qoboza and Donald Woods, whenever the embarrassment of their policies have been too great. Now, in another move to undercut the opposition to Harvard's lucrative hare in apartheid, including a financial boycott by many alumni/ae of the College, we are presented with an ambitious plan to educated black South Africans in the very institutions which profit from their oppression...
...march, which by this time had accumulated representatives of the Screen Actors Guild, Gray Panthers, Hare Krishnas, prolifers, and civilian peacekeepers, wound its way out of the district and proceeded to nearby Bryant Park for a rally. Heartened by music from a women's jazz group and performers from the Broadway shows "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road" and "Gemini," the crowd settled down to consider a question posed by poet Robin Morgan: "How come the women's movement woke up to the issue of pornography...