Word: mico
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Argentines responded to the new climate with joyous tumult. At Buenos Aires' Teatro Cómico one night, Lola Membrives, an actress Juan Perón had decorated, was hooted from the stage with the raucous cry, "Give back the medals...
According to a 1945 presidential decree, all Argentine restaurants, even such famed luxury resorts as the grill rooms at the Plaza and the Alvear Palace Hotels in Buenos Aires, are required to list and serve the menú econímico. This 32? meal typically consists of uninspired soup, a snarl of spaghetti, nondescript fish and a tired banana...
...odious order, waiters snatch the tablecloth from the table and the napkin from the diner's lap. The table is set with chipped crockery and kitchen silverware. Then, aiming at the kitchen and rearing back, a waiter bellows at the top of his voice: "Menú econímico for one!" That attracts the attention of everyone in the dining room. Trying to ignore the snobbish glances from other diners and the sneers of waiters, the customer bolts the food. If he tries to make amends by leaving a tip, the waiter gives him the final cut: "Keep...
...days of the treatment may be numbered. Last week the dutiful Peronista press took up the cudgels for the menú ecnímico, warning waiters that any more such sabotage of the restaurant law could mean big trouble. La Epoca insisted: "The cry, 'Menú econímico for one!' must never again be heard . . . How would a waiter feel if he went into a shoe store and the clerk shouted: 'A pair of cheap shoes...
...Mico's brother, a bright one who goes to college and accepts all the bejabbers of modern science, grows up to be a dusty wielder of test tubes. His best friend, a ranting revolutionary, is knocked out of his wits by a hurling stick in a game of Irish hockey, and later kills himself. Big, slow Mico goes steady ahead, fishing the waters, eating the bread, waiting for the girl of his portion...