Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEVOTEES live according to four basic rules. They do not gamble, drink, engage in "illicit" sex, or cat meat. They live communally in Krishna temples, and feed themselves on sweets and spices whose recipes are taken from Vedic texts. They do as little as possible to expend themselves in physical self-flattery...
...Sciences, magazine of the respected New York Academy of Sciences, proposes that we are what we eat: "Thus when a person exclaims, 'Boy, do I feel like a steak today!' he may mean it quite literally. He may feel exactly like a large slab of meat: soft, raw, heavy." That digested, the article proceeds to other insights into "the relationship between eating habits and personality traits...
...late '30s, fascism was making many converts among the jobless, bitterly frustrated slumdwellers. "This was not the slum across the tracks," recalls Alinsky. "This was the slum across the tracks from across the tracks." By organizing a series of sitdowns and boycotts, he forced the neighborhood meat packers and slumlords to meet the demands of the community for a better life. Alien ideologies lost their force, and Back of the Yards became the model of a stable neighborhood...
...three or four days every couple of weeks. It clears out the system, makes me feel pure. I don't eat much anyway, and I've given up meat entirely...
...born in Lachine, Quebec, an industrial suburb of Montreal, in 1915. just two years after his Russian parents emigrated from St. Petersburg. (He still speaks fluent French.) "It was a polyglot village of Sicilians, Ukrainians, Scots, Croats and Indians," Bellow remembers. "I had an Iroquois nurse who chewed meat before feeding it to me. I'm sure it did me good...