Word: roasting
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...true savorer of the seed would trust another to roast his kernels for him. Yet few desire the reddened fingers and tattered tongue that comes of shelling them oneself. "If you are ever forced into a sheller's market, however, I suggest you improvise an anvil out of the nearest table and a hammer out of an empty Coke bottle. With luck and experience, you will be able to shell as many as ten in a minute...
...destiny of growing sons, as Baudelaire pointed out, to suffer stoically if not gladly those "quoters of precedents," their fathers. In later life they are free to roast the old man in novels-and frequently do. Fathers, on the other hand, have the advantage of letters. They may not noticeably influence their sons, but instruction is not the prime purpose of a father-to-son letter: its real business is to justify a father to himself-and sometimes to his society-in what Alan Valentine justly calls "the most demanding and least apprenticed" of professions...
...Recipe for Cold Roast Boston," Gordon Milde goes into unnecessary speculation about the future of our technological society, but he also makes the valid point that a neighborhood (particularly a lower-class neighborhood) is a web of vital human relationships which are destroyed whenever the neighborhood is. The planner should realize, therefore, that new highways and urban renewal disrupt the lives of hundreds of people; he should not rearrange cities for purely aesthetic or commercial reasons. Unfortunately, it is sometimes hard to distinguish Milde's ideas from these of Professor Banfield, whom he quotes at the beginning...
...years ago microwave ovens seemed just the thing for everyone's dream kitchen: roast beef cooked in 30 minutes, apple pie in 18, meat loaf in 13. But the ovens flopped: they were priced too high (well over $1,000), cost too much to repair, sometimes turned meat a bilious grey. Despite this, expensive microwave ovens are now back in force-this time not intended for everybody's kitchen. Vastly improved small models are cooking up a storm in the nation's restaurants...
Late in the week, Rusk was host at his Waldorf-Astoria suite to British For eign Secretary Lord Home and Russia's Andrei Gromyko for a two-hour lunch which featured roast veal, champagne, with a dessert of lukewarm detente...