Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muslim tradition provides the language and symbolism to express a wide social message: it is not necessarily a religious phenomenon. It is not antiChristian. In fact, Muslims really regard modern Westerners as a species of pagan. Ironically, some of the resentment has been aroused by the emergence of oil-rich classes within the Islamic countries themselves. With that wealth came a widening gap between rich and poor, a dangerous ambivalence of rising expectations and an anxiety that old ways might be endangered. The resentment of modernization is not anything so simply and piously self-abnegating as a wish to avoid...
...convinced the Islamic world-or half-convinced it-of its worth and power. The presence of oil in the complicated psychology of anti-Westernism makes the volatility of the Islamic world especially perilous. It is an interesting point of Muslim psychology that the Arabs who grow unimaginably rich off Western payments for oil (and squander their petrodollars on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Rolls-Royces and golden bathroom fixtures) have still in them enough desert asceticism to be contemptuous of the West's energy addictions. So here the old relation is reversed: the West is dependent...
...Schwartz was involved in the suit for only two months rather than years, on behalf of an agency that depends on taxpayers to cover two-thirds of its budget. As Frank puts it, "When the public sector is as desperately poor as it is, no one ought to get rich...
...standard North American Christmas dinner about as predictable as a Norman Rockwell rendering, the time has come to borrow from other countries their versions of foods that seem traditionally American: the turkey, the yam, the potato, the pumpkin. For starters, how about pumpkin soup? Or bawd bree, the rich hare broth of Scotland? It might be followed by Colombia's pato borracho (drunken duckling) or Gaelic roastit bubblyjock wi' cheston crappin (roast turkey with chestnuts) and rumblede-thumps (creamed potatoes and cabbage). Dessert could be Mexican torta del cielo, or a rum-flavored nut tart from France...
...news to many Americans that the Scots do not live by haggis and porridge alone. As zestfully set forth in A Feast of Scotland by Janet Warren (Little, Brown; 176 pages; $12.95), Caledonia has a rich and distinctive cuisine. Its glories flow from bountiful game, fresh- and saltwater fish, beef and lamb, though the Scots have always relied on grain. Their baps, bannocks, buns, oatcakes and scones are among the world's finest daily breadstuff's. Warren provides sound recipes for loaves and fishes, as well as for sturdy broses (porridge soups) and broths like the celebrated cock...