Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With interest I read your article "Diplomacy-Penny Ante" (April 21). I happen to be one of the Dutch editors who got his slice of meat snatched away at the conference in Noordwijk...
...this were seriously offered as a motive for the erection of Humphrey Bogart as a culture hero, then this review could be assured of the same uneducated silence that local audiences give to jokes about meat rationing in movies of the 'forties: or acknowledged with the same smug chuckle of the rare undergrad who recognizes the reference to "red points" for what it is, and hoarsely tells his neighbors of his knowledge. But the unashamed hilarity that attends the Bogart festival at the Brattle is indicative that the greatest part of the audience is as ignorant of their escape into...
...million income in oil revenues, its army (larger than the armies of either West Germany or Japan) and its vast police force gobble up $200 million a year, the Development Plan $150 million more. Prices are rising at the alarming clip of 10% yearly, and a pound of meat in Teheran was a staggering $1.15. Wages have not kept pace; the striking teachers on the average earned scarcely $25 a month. Then there is, as always, widespread graft and corruption which Amini frankly called "the curse of Iran...
...Indian politician like trying to guess who will succeed Pandit Nehru, now 71, and the only Premier the country ever had. The name most mentioned lately has been Morarji Desai, 64, who is India's able Finance Minister, leading prohibitionist and all-round ascetic (he eats no meat, fasts 36 hours a week, once gave up sex for 20 years). Last week Nehru clipped Desai's career back so far that the guessing game was wide open again...
...Ulysses, said in self-defense: "I'm not idiotic enough to put Metalious on a level with Joyce." (He had been quoted as saying that Ulysses would make "as exciting a film as Peyton Place") "It's like talking about hamburger and steak. They're both meat, but one of them tastes better...