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...Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, and a strategic paperback titled How to Get Ahead in the Army. For those who could not make the sun scene, there was a new crop of movies to catch, coffeehouses for conversation, or further out, a burgeoning of psychediscotheques tripping with lobster lights and the whining anti-melodies of Indian sitar music...
...grandeur of De Gaulle. These days, they find glory enough in a little Gallic warrior who has a droopy yellow mustache and wears a winged beanie, whose force de frappe is not a nuclear bomb but a magic potion that contains-as a bow to the French palate-lobster. The whole nation has come to adore a comic-book hero whose name suggests a mere footnote to history. He is Astérix Le Gaulois, leader of a hilarious village of "unsubdued and irksome" Gauls still holding out against Caesar's legions...
...means are as varied as the goals. Chicago Manufacturer Thomas Mc-Comas, 28, a would-be movie producer, staged a "psychedelic night" last September for 1,000 friends and wellwishers, offered them unlimited liquor, steak tartare, ear-shattering recorded music, and a flickering "lobster light" au Leary. Charging $10 a head ($15 for couples), McComas cleared $1,000. It was not as much as he had hoped for but enough to finance his film, No Game Today...
More Meaningful Penance. In doing away with fish-on-Friday, the American bishops followed the example of 17 other national conferences that have decided that eating lobster Newburg instead of hamburger is not precisely a genuine act of mortification. Dispensations to soldiers, travelers and the sick have been freely given by the church, and in much of Europe the practice has been observed by hardly anyone but the clergy. While declaring that abstinence was no longer binding under pain of sin, the bishops urged the faithful to preserve the custom, particularly during the Lenten season, as "an outward sign...
Poor Richard's, Ogunquit, Me. In a 1780 tavern on the King's Highway, now a restaurant specializing in Yankee pot roast cooked in wine, baked lobster in wine sauce, breasts of capon and prime ribs of beef...