Word: scottishly
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...year salary. She parks it somewhere in rural Virginia-commuting to work by chauffeured limousine-but she keeps its exact location a secret; she has been forced to move once because of county ordinances against trailers. Wherever she goes, her miniature poodle and huge, shaggy Scottish deerhound go too. They have welcomed, and startled, many a visitor to Ray's office in the AEC headquarters at Germantown...
...addition, African song and dance ensembles, Scottish Highland dancers and drummers and American Indian, English Country, Middle Eastern, Irish step and figure, and American square dancers will perform. Several groups will teach their dances to the audience in addition to performing...
...range of foods from many lands to be sampled includes Indonensian "satay" (beef tidbits on bamboo skewers), Polish "golabki" (stuffed cabbage), German potato salad and American barbecued ribs. Others include Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Egyptian, French, Greek, Hawaiian, Indian, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Scottish, Turkish and Ukrainian dishes. For those with a sweet tooth there will be many pastries and an international candy booth...
When he learns his life has been no more real than a Paddy joke-that he is Scottish on both sides-the news affects Jack like expulsion from Eden. What is a Scotsman? Jack undergoes a case of nine-year shock trying to answer. First he becomes a non-Irishman-a "neutral man," practically evaporating in the arms of his girl Elizabeth, a perfect colleen stereotype with "about seventy-six brothers and sisters, and a drunken no-good father...
...latest lifestyle, they call it being contemporary. Count Jack out: he has been somebody once, and he must be somebody again. He meets his first Scotsman, "a moody sort" who wears tweed pants and smokes a pipe. The new hoot-mon studies his archetype and buries himself in Scottish history until his eyes throb. At the end of this surreal little journal of tribal transfer, not only Jack's heart but Jack's body-packing a volume of Robbie Burns-is en route to the Highlands, preparing for rebirth...