Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July the first of three batches of 4,000 volunteers were at work in the Rif. Rising at 5 a.m., they walked to their work sites and worked through till noon, with only a half-hour break. Lunch over, the volunteers moved on to a different kind of task: classes in the ABCs of civic responsibility. And out of each group, the brightest 80 were sent off to a special camp where the nation's top politicians lectured them on such matters as "the rights of a citizen" and "the democratization of Morocco...
Twice-married Ted Cabot helps deliver the papers, mans the classified-ads desk at the lunch hour, frequently dons apron and relieves a typesetter, composes his editorials at a desk so cluttered with papers that he has to peck at a portable typewriter propped precariously on his lap. Says Cabot: "I've felt close to the people here and their problems. When I no longer had any ties back East, I just picked up and came...
...gladly jitneys the live-out maid to and from home (and waits while she does her shopping), sometimes even turns over the family sedan for the live-in maid's days off (two a week). Modern dayworkers want a solid breakfast as well as a thumping good lunch on the job, the same food the family eats-or better. The wise housewife watches her maid's health-and pays the bills -helps buy her clothes, listens to her love life and family problems. For those with couples in help, a marital declaration of war or an unwanted baby...
...This box lunch may not be everyone's dish, but it is at least something to see a British writer indulging in overstatement. Says Author Golding's victim, as his innards are slowly being poisoned by his diet of limpets: "I am in servitude to a coiled tube the length of a cricket pitch." This may be existentialism, even poetry, but it is not cricket. A pitch's length: 66 ft.; average adult intestine...
...After lunch (with two martinis) he naps for an hour, putters around in the flower garden (he tends the roses), and reads until he picks up Bernice at the station. After dinner Cozzens goes to his study, "where I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer." Cozzens' sole hobby is a pop record collection, vintage 1920 to 1927-Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman-which he plays by the hour on his hi-fi set. "Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking...