Word: sauerbraten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston Mayor Kevin H. White put up a meal of two New England lobsters, a crock of baked beans, and two tickets to the Yankee Doodle Game (part of the Massachusetts lottery). Therefore Berry, mayor of Cincinnati, offered "a good German dinner, consisting of sauerbraten, sauerkraut, potato cakes, and good German beer...
Goldfein's comedy manages the odd trick of being broad and donnish at the same time. He does Hegel with a sauerbraten accent: "Veil, now, vot ve got here? Ve got, for shtarters, ve got Descartes. Him and his Cogito, ergo sum ... Dot's an insight?" Not every one of these brief sketches works. But the author does a fine turn on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and he perceives, in an epiphany whose correctness is apparent, that Economist John Maynard Keynes wrote not only The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, but also The Myth of Sisyphus...