Word: souped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absence of materialism noted by the visitors is not quite as real as meets the eye. In areas of southern China, remittances from abroad make a considerable difference. Those who get them lunch on meat or fish; those who do not, most frequently lunch on corn dumplings and salt soup (made by boiling water with a few vegetable leaves). Peasants are allowed to own small plots and to sell the produce on a limited free market. City workers spend about one-third of their income on food and are still concerned with the things money can buy: bicycles, radios, cameras...
Along with their coffee-house, the Process maintains a "free store" to provide clothing and other needed materials to people in need who seek help from the Church; they also maintain a soup kitchen that feeds lunch, by their estimate, to 60 or 70 people a week...
Along with maintaining their free store and soup kitchen, Process members also provide informal counseling for "runaways, drug addicts, and people with social, mental, and physical problems...
...Hsinchiao Hotel and served a sumptuous tray of cold Chinese hors d'oeuvres, the inexperienced travelers assumed that was their meal. They dug in lustily. When they finished, however, nine other courses followed. "We had food you wouldn't believe," said Connie Sweeris. "Shark-fin soup, century-old eggs, and for dessert soup with a whole chicken floating in it. Actually, I got used...
...free" schools. Influenced by reformist manifestos like John Holt's How Children Fail, more than 800 of them are now run by diverse idealists -suburban mothers, ghetto blacks, former campus radicals. Their mood is typified by exotic school names: The Mind Restaurant (Phoenix), The Elizabeth Cleaners (Manhattan). Stone Soup (Longwood, Fla.), All Together Now (Venice, Calif.). Their future is suggested by an outburst of how-to-do-it information. In Santa Barbara. Calif., the New Schools Exchange publishes a newsletter that now boasts 100,000 subscribers...