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...their best to please. Inside the main camp was a U.S.-style shopping center where Hungarian girls in native peasant dresses hawked rugs, paintings and even antique silverware. A supermarket sold Red Chinese meat loaf, canned Peking duck, Russian tuna fish, Yugoslav salami, Hungarian goulash, and East German herring. The shelves were loaded with just about every variety of East-bloc wine and liquor. Next to the shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot down over the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam today"). To make...
...newspaper."-"In our stratum of society," proclaimed one shaggy-haired youth with a sly grin, "we don't aspire to haircuts." On a ferryboat outing to Victoria, B.C., a Negro student watched a number of black-backed gulls mingling overhead with grey and white herring gulls and chuckled: "We're being intellectually stimulated watching the integrated seagulls." Another boy, appalled by a teacher's professed ignorance about "pot" (marijuana), observed: "You'd sure be disadvantaged in my neighborhood." Trying to "Rate." Many teachers find that kind of saucy intelligence more promising than the studied sophistication they...
Icons of Youth. Such magnificence is a far cry from the provincial Russian ghetto town of Vitebsk in which Chagall grew up, the eldest among eight sisters and one brother. To support the family, his father manhandled herring barrels for a livelihood. Life was harsh in Vitebsk, but he remembers his father, who changed his name from Segal to Chagal (Marc added the second l for euphony in French), as a good provider, a "simple heart, poetic and muted." Sheltered by the Jewish commandment against graven images, the young dreamer never saw so much as a drawing until...
...drug called Parnate (tranylcypromine) went through a disheartening experience two years ago. When they ate cheese or drank red wine their hearts pounded, their blood pressure zoomed and their heads ached in tensely. Last week Parnate patients were notified of a new food to delete from their diet: pickled herring...
...letter to the A.M.A. Journal, three Minneapolis physicians explained that herring and Parnate had never been considered a dangerous combination until a 54-year-old patient turned up with the same painful symptoms that racked the cheese eaters. Analysis showed that some herring the patient had eaten was rich in the same amines that occur in cheese and wine. Those amines are normally oxidized into harmless body chemicals. But the enzyme that is supposed to do the oxidizing is monoamine oxidase, the very enzyme that Parnate neutralizes to achieve its antidepressant effect. The mixture of drug and delicacy thus overloaded...