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...invasion of Viet Nam. Communist Party activists rounded up several hundred students from Moscow University to demonstrate in front of the Chinese embassy. Though the occasion was less than spontaneous, the demonstrators hurled snowballs, stones and ink pots at the walls and windows with real enthusiasm and relish. At a diplomatic dinner party in Moscow, Soviet maids reportedly even refused to serve the Chinese guests...
...curious thing was that he had so little natural talent as an artist; no fluency, little relish. Magritte's paintings from the early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...
Haute cuisine, as we relish it, was formulated and perfected in France between the 14th and 19th centuries. The recipes developed by La Varenne and La Chapelle, Brillat-Savarin and Beauvilliers (who founded the first recorded restaurant in France) are as practical and savory as ever. In The Grand Masters of French Cuisine (Putnam; 288 pages; $25), Celine Vence and Robert Courtine, two of France's most distinguished culinary authorities, have assembled some of the greatest formulas ever invented. It would be hard to resist the original instructions for boeuf mode as constructed by Pierre de Lune...
...splashing and general mayhem, but balances his off-the-wall antics with a sound sense of the appropriate; invention almost seems subordinate to the text. If it frequently resembles a circus, it is an indisputably Shakespearean circus, the Bard doing breast-stroke, the actors barnstorming with the kind of relish rarely unleashed in Harvard theater. It never approaches a tragedy of thought and feeling--it doesn't leave you numb (unless with the cold)--only surprised and which is saying a lot for swimming-pool Shakespeare...
...double-knits, looking nothing like the head of a multi-million dollar operation. He is surrounded by a small coterie of staff assistants businly vying for his attention; we expect one of them to kiss his ring at any moment. A lady emerges to announce--with great pleasure and relish--that Mr. Stanley Kaplan is here in the flesh to welcome us personally...