Word: melone
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...bring the reader close to an understanding of his literary environment. Rejecting the narcotic apathy in the midst of progress that he considers the downfall of "Our defeated generation...," Qabbani appeals to the young to ignore their parents' example "For we have failed/Are worthless and banal as a melon rind...
Ehrlichman, alas, serves up a minibiography as each minor character appears ("His age was hard to peg," etc.). He is afflicted by compulsive total recall of menus (at CIA headquarters dessert is austere "melon and cookies"; the G Street Club offers "a perfect, soft Brie"). But his prose, often better than serviceable, is sometimes very cutting indeed. (The political career of a Democratic Vice President is summed up as "a lackluster, snail creep to seniority.") By the time the reader gets to President No. 3, Richard Monckton, he is meant to accept Ehrlichman's jungle view of life...
...society. Millions of Americans work at jobs that rarely encompass more than a step in a production sequence or a repetition of services. And they work indoors, besides. For these millions, the meshing of one's hand with nature's rhythms and whimsies to produce a delicious melon or a crunchy celery stalk is proving to be a renewing experience...
...could squash you like a rotten melon...
...menu at Eugenie-les-Bains last season included: first day-mousseline of crayfish with watercress sauce, leg of milk-fed lamb cooked in wild hay, apple surprise, eggplant caviar, salmon with sorrel sauce, pear souffle. Second day-salad of artichokes and green beans in wine vinegar, sweetbreads with mushrooms, melon sherbet, poached egg with watercress, whiting with chopped vegetables, baked apple...