Word: omelet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life, One Kopeck), autobiographer (I Write as I Please), longtime (1921-34) No. 1 Timesman in Russia and No. 1 Russian apologist in the U.S. (when Stalin doomed some 3,000,000 peasants to death from starvation by withholding grain, Duranty wrote: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs"); of a stomach ailment; in the Orlando, Fla. hospital where he last week married his second wife, Anna Enwright, widow of a Florida judge. Duranty became well acquainted with the Kremlin oligarchy (said he: "Moscow stands for progress"; said Stalin: "You have done a good job of reporting...
...election): "I don't think the states are doing a very good job with the things they have-education, mental health and a multitude of other things." Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff was even more typical. Said Ribicoff: "It's like taking an omelet and trying to put it back in the eggshells. It's too late for that...
...with a mere shrug or grunt or monosyllable, he can be a delight. But oftener he struggles, like a boxer, to outpoint his material, or like a magician, to make it vanish; and oftenest, he is mowed down by it. The evening is as unhappy a mixture as an omelet would be made with one new-laid and one quite elderly...
...usual, most of those on hand had no idea what an egg roll was supposed to be. Smacks for Easter. Egg rolling is a mysterious, long-coddled folk custom that is neither a game nor a rite, not colorful or thrilling, and no more pointed than a jelly omelet. Only an oömancer could tell how it all began, or when-or why. Egg rolling is probably related to an old Central European custom called by the Germans Schmeckostern, or Easter smacks. The men beat the women with birch boughs on Easter Monday and the women beat...
...Friday night, the faculty's second spring concert opened with Manuel de Falla's Harpsichord Concerto. While de Falla's music has a strongly Spanish flavor, it is not the tambourine-and-castanets omelet favored by Rimsky-Korsakov and Bizet. Rather, he uses irregular rhythms, unresolved harmonic tensions, and occasional folk tunes to create an atmosphere of barely concealed Latin violence. The jangling sound of the harpsichord and an accompaniment reduced to five instruments further the effect and connote its inspiration: the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Harpsichordist Melville Smith and his ensemble did full justice to lyrical elements...