Word: rum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regime is especially remarkable in Venezuela. During Venezuela's 133 years as a republic, no constitutional President has ever completed his term, and 16 out of 24 Presidents have been generals. Venezuela's favorite sports, goes the Caracas joke, are bolas, caña y golpes-rumors, rum and military coups...
What might have been just one more dreary cup of bitter British literary tea is laced with George's rum ruminations on himself and his family's past. In the space it takes many a modern writer just to clear his throat, Scott sketches in a man's whole lifetime and draws in detail a haunting character-part bounder, part victim, part humble appraiser of how badly he has played the hand that life has chosen to deal him. Blessed or not, Scott seems to say, the poor in spirit will never inherit the earth. But, possessed...
Prudence Penny, the New York Mirror's cooking columnist, was teaching readers how to make rum pie with zwieback crust. "Break up zwieback," commanded Prudence conventionally. The next step in the recipe was the kicker: "Keep rum bottle handy; if smashing up zwieback exhausts you, take swig of rum and resume zwieback breaking when strength returns." The extraordinary advice may have startled housewives not yet privy to the Mirror's secret: Prudence Penny is a onetime police reporter named Hyman Goldberg...
...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! beat! If you think you are too beat to beat any more, you are a quitter!" Others encourage the housewife to pick quarrels with the quartermaster: "Ask butcher to lard beef with...
...over twenty Harvard men armed with transistor radios, soda pop, peanut butter and rum were huddled on the porch. They had had visits from the police ("Just like lining up for theatre tickets, huh?"), eight town girls ("What're you guys doing up there?"), four young men from Cambridge in a car who threw eggs, and two freshman, deans. The students started a list of arrivees which was used as a guide by section men in the morning...