Word: salads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Food Faddists. In women's magazines appeared ads from Corn Products Refining Co. praising "golden-light" Mazola salad-and-cooking oil as "pure corn oil . . . not hydrogenated, unsaturated, nutritionally unexcelled." In medical journals, Corn Products sharpened its attack, invited doctors to write in for a free booklet, "Vegetable Oils in Nutrition." stressing reports on the connection of undesirable fats and heart disease. "Evidence is accumulating," said the ad, "that quality of the dietary fat may be more important than quantity...
...newly-constituted Harvard Players have concocted a most palatable summer salad of Shakespeare excerpts. Four carefully selected scenes from four different plays, all neatly staged and well acted, add up to an extremely pleasing evening...
...sideshows during the three-week campaign. Among the barkers: eight-term Congressman Alvin O'Konski, 53, whose campaign manager decided to sell O'Konski's blend of domestic New Dealism and mossbacked foreign policy by television and newspaper spreads "just like you sell a new potato salad" (and brought him in third). Another was Gerald D. Lorge, 35, a "fighting marine" who fought a campaign in Joe McCarthy's image, came in sixth to discover what nearly everyone else realized: even in Wisconsin, McCarthyism is dead. But the stiffest battle came from young ex-Congressman Glenn...
...contains about 80% linoleic acid, is extracted from seeds of a thistlelike plant long grown in Africa, India, the Middle East. First marketers: San Francisco's Safflower Products Corp. (Saffola), North Chicago's Abbot Laboratories (Saff), Chicago's Armour Laboratories (Arcofac). Saffola is offered as a salad or cooking oil; the others are emulsions to be taken as medicine...
...sense of the past but with an understanding of the present as well: "[Renaissance men] protested against the shortness of human life and against the instability of all things by being as alive as they possibly could be. They ate sensations by the spoonful and turned themselves into a salad of all sorts of contradictory human qualities. We today behave in the opposite manner. We imagine that the less different and the less conspicuous we are, the less we shall be noticed by the forces of life and the safer we shall...