Word: hearth
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That vision will probably never replace the image?and the dream? of the snug, permanent hearth, even suitably expanded by "clusters." But it may be closer to the reality of American life...
...stand open to the great winds which blow from the past out of the Kalevala, the Sagas and the Edda. Let me give you an idea of how close it is. That evening these same peasants were cooking their supper over a fire of twigs on a raised, open hearth. The hearth was like the one you see on the stage in Act I of Wagner's Die Walkiire...
...marvelously eccentric manifesto, Olney writes: "My kitchen I love, but I would recommend it to no one else." Just as well, because he cooks mostly on an open hearth where roasts turn on a spit, meat and fish are grilled, and vegetables bake buried in the hot ashes. Furthermore, he adds, "from time to time I climb to the rooftop and suspend a marinated rolled boar's belly or other delicacy in the chimney to be smoked." He is not really a masochist. The reason for this laborious approach is that the techniques of French cooking were perfected with...
Other protests are bound to come as industries start to fight pollution. In many cases, marginal operations might indeed be forced out of business when they have to take on the added burden of pollution safeguards. Armco Steel Corp., for example, closed eight old open-hearth furnaces in Houston rather than equip them with costly antipollution devices. This kind of shutdown can cause economic havoc. Some cases...
Relegated to the Hearth. Tiger calls this particular kind of masculine affinity "bonding": the forging of strong emo tional ties between men that have noth ing to do with women. He contends that these male bonds go back to the origins of human society, owe much to man's animal genesis and are probably genetically determined. They must first have been formed, Tiger speculates, when man turned hunter - an event that occurred anywhere from 2,000,000 to 26 million years ago and that forever after relegated man's female companion to the responsibilities of the hearth...