Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fidel Castro was once the particular pet of Europe's non-Communist left. Lately, however, El Jefe has come under increasing attack from his erstwhile admirers for his administrative failures and his increasing reliance upon Moscow, which keeps some 30,000 "advisers" in Cuba to help run things. Last week Fidel was smarting as a result of the most intense criticism to date from leftist intellectuals for his Soviet-style crackdown on a Cuban poet named Heberto Padilla...
Straight off, the Romans illustrate one of Miss Pullar's pet theses, which Americans, engulfed in cookbooks and cholesterol, might ponder: gluttony is the consequence of another sin, boredom -acedia. Affluent Roman days, according to Miss Pullar, were "great plains of monotony punctuated with affairs and mealtimes," often conducted simultaneously. (In a special appendix the twin hungers for food and sex are related by Miss Pullar, who is now at work on a biography of that priapic trencherman, Frank Harris...
...Sports Center, the natives tell of the local version of the Loch Ness monster, a wicked old mossback called "Ol' Geronimo," who "goes 30 Ibs. if he's an ounce." * Next door at the Belair Resort, Proprietor W.C. Jefferson laments the passing of Charlie, an 8-lb. pet bass that would nose up to the motel's dock for lunch. When one native let it drop that he had recently pulled a 16 pounder out of a "special hole" in the river, Sam's eyes pinwheeled. "Where's the hole?" he demanded. "Where?" The native...
...however, has a tendency to play too many of her emotional cards too early; a little more passivity in the first act would pay larger dividends in the second.) There is also Ethel Woodruff in the potentially unrewarding part of the decrepit boarder. Miss Woodruff looks not unlike a pet rabbit who is murdered during the course of the drama; her pink eyes stare painfully ahead as if death were some shabby stranger waving in the faint distance, and I found her portrayal so credible that I often found it necessary to avert my eyes from the spectacle...
...tobacco companies raised their after-tax profits by a total of 19% last year, the second largest gain among 41 industries in the Citibank survey (the leader: amusement companies). The rise stemmed largely from successful diversification that has taken the cigarette makers into products and services as varied as pet food, soap, whisky, watches and shipping. The profit gains also reflected the reversal last year of a three-year drop in per capita cigarette consumption. Average consumption worked out to 4,039 cigarettes a year for each American over 18, or slightly more than half a pack...