Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meat went right to his head. After only one roast boar he'd begin talking wildly about what he'd do to the Romans. I remember once, when two or three of us were aboard his five-man kayak on the Rhine, he stood up, shaking his leg of antelope, and boasted how he was going to get those effete unprintables! He had a carving knife in his free hand and this really sincere look in his eyes, and I don't know what would have happened if the kayak hadn't tipped over...
Scaling Down in Meat...
...Colonial meat-packing company proved over the weekend to be the only group of people who can play both sides of the Yankee-Red Sox blood feud. Effervescent kids on New York's channel 11, largely black and Hispanic, touted Yankee Franks as "the taste that takes you out to the ballgame," while a similar, but whiter, group of urchins acted out the same theme between innings for Fenway Franks...
...practice of abstaining from meat on Friday, meant to emulate Jesus' fasting and to commemorate the day he was crucified, eventually became a church commandment and for centuries served as a kind of Roman Catholic badge...
...departures of lay Catholics are less frequent now, but there were many. Some succumbed to what Greeley calls the "meat on Friday"* syndrome: "Once it became legitimate [in 1966] to eat meat on Friday, one could doubt the authority of the Pope, practice birth control, leave the priesthood and get married or indeed do anything else one wanted to," he writes. Although he rejects this factor as a major explanation of the religious falloff, certain Catholics found it painfully real. "Vatican II amazed me," wrote Author Doris Grumbach in the Critic, "because it raised the possibility of more answers than...