Word: savors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born, it is the fisherman-especially a British fisherman-bent on interrupting that journey with rod and line. In this deft and funny account of a stay at a Welsh fishing hotel, originally written as an Esquire piece, Novelist (Home from the Hill) William Humphrey encourages the reader to savor the eccentricities of both men and fish. His characters include an admiral whose refusal to clutter his memory with such matters as his children's names enables him to recall the exact conditions (water temperature, wind direction, barometric pressure, tackle, fly, etc.) under which he killed every salmon...
Would football have lost its savor if each side mustered a ghetto black at tight end, a scholarship Indian at quarterback and a defensive secondary of Third World recruits? Mrs. Wechsler has yet to be heard from...
...SETTING: THE HALL OF MIRRORS, VERSAILLES, JANUARY 1871: In the palace of the Bourbons, the rulers of Germany's 25 independent and quarrelsome states gather to savor the fruits of their victory over France's armies. The Franco-Prussian War has given the Germans something that eluded them for centuries?unity. As the architect of that unity, Count Otto von Bismarck looks on, gripping the long spike of his Prussian helmet, while Prussia's King Wilhelm proclaims the establishment of the German Empire. Historian Thomas Carlyle hails the German victory in a letter to the Times of London: "That noble...
...many of the 800,000 New Yorkers who daily travel by cab were like ex-smokers who find that they can savor food again. Among other things, they rediscovered the unfamiliar art of walking. Those who drove their own cars found that without 12,000 taxis, the streets were almost unnaturally serene and clear. Air pollution seemed to diminish somewhat, along with the noise of horns and the city's general apoplexy. Taxi users welcomed a respite from cabbies' customary harangues. Mainly, there was that remote, subversive inkling that occurs only when routine is abruptly broken: "Maybe...
...Rome, the court that will hear divorce pleas is already struggling with a backlog of 2,400 family cases-enough to keep it busy through mid-1972. The expected addition of 30,000 divorce cases to the docket means that many Italians will not get a chance to savor divorce Italian style until...