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Since June, when he took over the column after the death of Vaudine Newell, its previous expert, Goldberg has dealt one shock after another to the essentially feminine realm of the kitchen. He seems intent on turning dinner into a binge: fish a la Goldberg is poached in gin, hens are baked in beer, and the glazing of apples is less important than fortifying the cook ("If you'd like to get a little glazed yourself, pour a shot of rum or brandy in"). Some of his recipes read like calisthenic exercises: "Now add the vanilla and beat! beat...
...artist "must always take into account improvisation." But if a work of art was an object with independent life, it was also a window into the heart. "Oh!" he exclaimed. "The smile of a dying man! The look in the mother's eyes! The embraces of despair! Precious realm of painting! That silent power that speaks at first only to the eyes and then seizes and captivates every faculty of the soul...
...Shadowy Realm. For years after the Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision, the Negroes' drive for equality remained essentially a struggle of law. It was directed mostly against governmental authorities maintaining official segregation in the South and the border states. Gradually, however, the Negroes have come to demand the abolition of subtle, nonlegal discrimination as well as official segregation...
Legend to the contrary, says Rowland, no statue of Buddha was made for centuries after his death because it was believed that he had passed into a realm of invisibility and could be represented only by such symbols as an empty throne for his Enlightenment or a great wheel for his first preaching. But eventually, the faithful came to hunger for something closer to the Buddha, and the great procession of images began...
...indefatigable woman chaser who didn't care what he mixed with his Bourbon blood, France's Louis XIV was a fatherly figure who did his best to treat his bastards as if they were true princes. Decked out with noble titles, married off to peers of the realm, the royal by-blows took their places in court and kingdom beside their legitimate brothers. Thus raised high by the king's power alone, the king's shadow family was a perfect gauge of his fortunes...