Word: porker
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...voices-strident and self-confident, proud and often contemptuous-naturally grates on the ears of their elders.'' Not this elder. These courageous young men and women are in existential revolt against the WASP suburbanite society, whether its members style themselves "liberal," "conservative," or "moderate" (a blue-ribbon porker is still a pig). Gustave Flaubert put it this way: "Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of all virtue " Can you dig it? The kids can. I affirm their stand...
...lakefront tent village in Grant Park, where they can groove on folk songs, rock bands, "guerrilla" theater, body painting and meditation. Through the park they will bear on a blue pillow their very own presidential candidate: Lyndon Pigasus Pig, a ten-week-old black and white porker now afattening at the Hog Farm, a hippie commune in Southern California. Other possibilities being considered: a lie-in at Chicago's O'Hare Field to prevent Democratic delegates from landing or, failing that, a fleet of fake cabs to pick up delegates and dump them off in Wisconsin...
...lost a bet." The bet, he added, was with Friend Philip Rosenthal, owner of the Rosenthal China Co., who brought out a line of china that Gropius was willing to bet would not sell well. The architect offered to pay off in a new home for Rosenthal's porker Roro. Rosenthal's plates have sold splendidly, and Gropius' architecture firm is now busily at work, said an associate, "studying how pigs live...
While the Marxist polemics are dated-who keeps servants, anyway?-the psychological tensions of the play are intact. Actor Roger Hamilton is a bristling porker of a Puntila, rutting, grunting and swilling his way through the part, but Michael Fairman's Matti is a trifle too stiff and condescending to be a Sancho Panza foil to this flamboyantly intoxicated Don Quixote...
Died. Henry Krajewski, 54, the Secaucus, N.J., pig farmer who wanted to be President, in 1949 formed his own Poor Man's Party and got himself on the New Jersey ballot in 1952, 1956 and 1960, campaigning with a wiggling porker under his arm and the slogan "No piggy deals in Washington," also ran for other offices in other years, never polling many votes, but once, in 1954, being credited with taking enough ballots (his vote: 35,241) away from the Democrats to help give Republican Clifford Case his first U.S. Senate victory; of a heart attack; in Secaucus...