Word: pecans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agile Bacchus, Oldenburg is shy but not modest. "I am a magician," he says. "A magician brings dead things to life." His sculptures of food, for example. Typical, terrible American cuisine fascinates him, the kinds of things dieters like Oldenburg himself try to avoid: a wedge of pecan pie, a banana sundae, racks of assorted pastry, ice cream, cheeseburgers. Made of plaster, slathered with lush enamel paint, these goodies actually seem ready for the consumer's fork and spoon. But like four-color advertisements of food, they are designed more to entice than to be eaten. An Oldenburg baked...
...Negro culture in America. Dr. George Washington Carver who came up from slavery, learned to go to school, devoted himself to his own research in "God's little workshop," and eventually developed 300 useful products from the peanut, 118 from the sweet potato, and more than 60 from the pecan. And W. C. Handy, who taught himself how to play a $1.75 trumpet, joined a band of roving minstrels, and became famous writing songs like "St. Louis Blues." After his success, his father told him, "Sonny, I am very proud of you and forgive you for becoming a musician...
Sunday, May 11 TEXAS OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT (ABC, 3-5 p.m.). Final round from the Pecan Valley Country Club in San Antonio...
Dissident students at the University of Texas pelt their teacher with pecan pralines. From his hospital bed two days later, Professor Lyndon Johnson accepts post at Berkeley...
...than the ports of St. Louis, Memphis, Pittsburgh or St. Paul. The new port is also expected to generate 14,000 new jobs and $500 million in investment. But all that must wait until a channel is dug from a big tract of land where cottonwoods, scrub oak and pecan trees now stand. For the present, though, it is rather jarring to see a big white water tower with the legend PORT CITY OF CATOOSA rising above acre after acre of dry, dusty land...