Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literature, the non-hero took over. He thrives in the U.S. today in the hands of such writers as Saul Bellow-whose Herzog has his great moment at the end of the book when he manages to summon enough strength to tell his cleaning woman to sweep the kitchen. Other literary "heroes" are fall guys, incipient madmen, badgered Everymen, victims. Their motto, says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith, seems to be, "Call me schlemiel." In more mundane life, there is much revulsion against the pose, if not the reality, of heroism. "Ya wanna be a hero...
Fundamental Fairness. Weinfeld was ruling on the habeas corpus petition of a Latvian named Almars Elksnis who killed his wife with a kitchen knife during a marital fray at their North Tarrytown, N.Y., home one hot night in June 1955. Because he had been in jail once before for another stabbing, Elksnis was a twotime loser headed for a heavy sentence. So when he came before Westchester County Judge George A. Brenner prepared to stand trial on a second-degree murder charge, he could not but accept Brenner's offer: "If you will plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter...
...least partially, the sight she lost after an automobile accident. Her doctor offered no explanation, but asked her: "Do you believe in miracles?" "Indeed I do," said the princess. She spent her birthday arranging the great bouquets of flowers that arrived. "I have flowers everywhere, even in the kitchen," she smiled. The best gift was that she could see them...
What only his friends knew was that he judged his contemporaries as much by their taste buds as their art appreciation. He delighted in toiling in the kitchen, and the gourmet dishes that he concocted are now a matter of record: 197 of his recipes, jotted down at the time by his closest friend and dealer, Maurice Joyant, have been published in French (Edita Lausanne, $10.72), illustrated with Toulouse-Lautrec's drawings, including the menus he drew for his own gourmet meals...
What they find is a new kind of nude art, stripped of sensuality, giant in scale, brightly colored and with all the appeal of a Formica-top kitchen table (see color). The wonder is that 42 British and American sculptors could all be found doing such similar things, and even its admirers are hard pressed to find words to praise the new cool geometry...