Word: hungerers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blessing a Burden. In a world in which millions still exist in hunger, the abundance of U.S. agriculture is in one sense a blessing. And Secretary Freeman keeps preaching that the people of the U.S. ought to regard their agricultural abundance not as a problem but as a "smashing success." As a result of that abundance, he argues, food is cheap in the U.S. Since the late 1940s, retail prices exclusive of food have gone up more than 30%. Over the same span, retail food prices have increased only 13%. This moderate rise in food prices reflected increased processing...
...Pension, Ah-ha!" On TV and at rallies, Caouette sticks to the stomach and the pocketbook. "When I'm up there," he says, "and I talk about the people in Montreal who had to dig in garbage pails for chicken last Christmas, I really feel their hunger. I feel their misery. I identify." He vaguely blames the "big interests," meaning the English-speaking people who rule Canada. "Have you ever heard of them lacking money to build a cannon? No. But family allowances, old-age pensions, money for the blind, ah-ha! That's another matter...
Balanchine's notion of the Orient is clearly more erotic than Mayuzumi's. The music is fragmented and ethereal, with no hint of sensuality in rhythm or dynamics. The dance, though, is something else again. The lovers stalk each other with expressionless hunger, and the postures they strike between movements are clear imitations of love. Balanchine did not intend to copy the traditional Bugaku, in which only men appear, but those who are misled by the borrowed title are likely to think that if such goings on are traditional in the Imperial Household, never mind the Ginza...
Nearly blind until he was 15, Hoffer had no schooling. But when his eyesight returned, he was seized with an "enormous hunger for the printed word" and read voraciously. Though he has many academic friends, Hoffer is wary of being "kept" by the intellectuals. He prefers his longshoreman's life by the sea with its freedom and heartiness. The romantics used to dream of philosophers of the common man springing up in America. Hoffer shows it can happen...
...example, "The song of the toot root has made the princess snore." But kids like the fancifulness more than the doggedly homely prose of ordinary primers, and as a bonus they get a sound start on correct spelling. Author Wenkart has plenty of proof that parents hunger for her products. With almost no advertising, the books now sell briskly in nearly every state. They help teach literacy-hungry preschool children, but are also being used by such topflight private schools as New York City's Brearley. Sales to date: more than...