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...Younger artists who might have grown powerful enough to launch a clear-cut Chicago-related school or movement have never stayed here long enough . . . to do so." But those who remained embraced their provincial situation with a kind of fierce pride in the city's hog-butcher materialism. Says Theodore Halkin: "I stay here because of the indifference, not in spite of it. I was never confused about my own idiosyncratic behavior. It's the only thing I've got, for God's sake. Why should I lose it in the turmoil of acceptance...
...same cannot always be said of the product brewed by his competitors. Says Fred Murrell of the Treasury Department's Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division: "We've found them making it in hog pens-harder for an agent to sniff it out that way. Sometimes there are rotted varmints in the shine. Why, the basic commodity is so raunchy, the public hasn't the foggiest idea how bad the stuff really is." However, moonshining is becoming less and less of a problem. In 1959 Government agents "cut" (smashed up) 9,225 stills; the number smashed dwindled...
...Vanity! hog-vanity, ape-lust slimed half my blue...
...supermarkets of Chicago, Carl Sandburg's "hog butcher for the world," pork chops that sold in September for 98$ per Ib. recently brought $1.19. "I'm no longer just buying meat-I'm investing in it," grumbled one typically exasperated shopper. Throughout the nation last week, food prices were a major concern. AFL-CIO Boss George Meany complained that in his favorite Mrs. Adler's matzoh-ball soup, the number of malzoh balls per can had sunk from four to three, in effect raising the price. Humorist Art Buchwald fantasized that President Nixon will lake...
...intricate classic art of building a log cabin, notch by hand-hewn notch, the principles of stone chimney construction, the shingles split from the white oak log with wedges, go-devil, maul and froe. And how to feed up, slaughter, dress out, pepper cure, smoke, cook and eat a hog, with two opinions about what one does with the ears, which are gristly. Not to mention a dissertation on moonshining as a fine art-by men who practiced it well...