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Society preceded sodomy. While Proust pursued halfhearted studies for the law and the diplomatic service, he put his passion into social climbing. The life of the salons provides Author Painter with the most fascinating and amusing section of his book. The Parisian wits skewered each other like shish kebab. At Mme. Aubernon's (a fat, lively little woman and the chief model for Mme. Verdurin in Remembrance), the subject for conversation was announced days in advance. "What is your opinion of adultery?" she asked Mme. Straus (a Duchesse de Guermantes model) when that was the theme. Mme. Straus replied...
Even though the old Zionist. Socialist and religious ideals still rule, their appeal begins to fade as Israel changes. Youngsters growing up on the desert feel more at home with shish kebab and Arab bread than with mother's gefüllte fish and apple strudel. Half the newcomers of recent years are Oriental Jews who never shared the peculiar Zionist and Socialist vision of Ben-Gurion's generation, and not even the old lawgiver can keep half their young folk down on the farm for more than the first year or two. The Sabras, the native-born...
...chocolate table; for Beria, a chocolate pistol. An excellent cook who likes to serve Armenian fare with bottled Crimean wine bearing typewritten notes identifying place of origin, Mikoyan once invited his' crony, the late Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, to try some of his specialties. Beria, sniffing the shish-kebab, saluted him as "Comrade Culinary Master." "Yes, yes," replied Mikoyan, with graveyard humor, "but my dear Lavrenty Pavlovich, in my kitchen you don't find a single damn piece of human meat...
...owes his success to the fact that he is not a professional cook, but an actor who can ad lib and keep guest cooks laughing. Another NBC cook, this one a past master, felt obligated on one Home show from New York to fight a duel with skewers of shish kebab while singing I Love...
...deceit." "If men are not free to marry the women they choose," said Barak, "they lack an elementary freedom." He served notice that if the Knesset would not consider changing the law, he would "fast until the end." A fortnight ago, after a final meal of shish kebab and beer, he stretched out in a Tel Aviv hotel with the announcement: "I was willing to die for Israel's freedom during the war, but I believe a free family life is an even nobler cause." Life for Law? Israelis at first shrugged their shoulders at what seemed a publicity...