Word: maximized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wiggly-hipped, exotic beat that sounds part Latino, part Arab. When the song is played at Geneva's tonier-than-thou Chez Maxim's, aging bankers and their young girl friends go into curious convulsions on the dance floor; at least one U.N. functionary has been known to snatch up a tablecloth, wrap it around his waist and do a belly dance. In Paris the tune tumbles endlessly from Left Bank students' rooms; chefs abandon soufflés to hear it. From Stockholm to Sorrento, Bandleader Bob Azzam's Mustapha has spread like a rampaging fungus...
Delwati guina Chez Maxim...
...were prize exhibits in the Communist cultural front-Malraux, already a rising novelist (Man's Fate) and touring revolutionary. Regler, a noted refugee writer living in Paris (he had fled Germany just after the Nazis seized power in 1933). Cultured Comrades Regler and Malraux had to listen while Maxim Gorky key-noted a writers' jamboree with piffle that reached the lower depths of unreason. Gorky's dialectical materialist account of Greek mythology defied parody, e.g., Icarus was not a parable of hubris but a prototype of the Soviet rocket, and poor God himself "an artificial summing...
...their own. Villages had special local deities. Chichicastenango Indians lit candles in the church, then offered candles, liquor and even crosses on a three-foot-high stone figure of the pagan god Pascual-Abaj on a hill behind the church. Santiago Atitlán's favorite was Maximón, a raffish deity with four hats and an uninhibited libido...
...last victory. Buttressed by Spanish priests who insist on orthodox Catholicism, Guatemala's hierarchy is finally determined to root out paganism and do away with the God of the Hills, the God of the Plains, and even that leering old devil who posed as a saint, Maxim...