Word: souped
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Revitalizing America is less than a revelation. Muller's solutions ultimately fail, because they do not present a new intellectual vision to the economics of poverty and prosperity. Instead, he rehashes and mixes mostly traditional ideas into a political soup so that they might have some effect. Perhaps the task ahead is too difficult for the economists. None were needed for the Western world's first industrialization. Considering the social and political problems of development both here and abroad, it is hard to imagine what solutions they provide...
...heaven; and come, follow me." For 2,000 years Christians have wrestled un successfully with the import of Jesus' words to the Rich Young Ruler. For her part, Roman Catholic Activist Dorothy Day took the command literally. Over two generations, idealistic young Catholics came to work at her soup kitchens, helping the poor for a while and then departing for families and careers. Dorothy Day stayed on. And on. When she died at age 83 in "Maryhouse," a residence for the destitute on New York City's Lower East Side, she was living in a small room next...
There are close to 50 songs all together, clustered in sections that form a kind of rudimentary sociocultural chronicle. In "Arrivals," a Jewish immigrant (Jerry Zaks) just off the boat sings The Yankee Doodle Boy with an accent you could ladle with a chicken soup spoon. Later, as a fully assimilated show-biz tintype, he repeats the same number á la George M. Cohan...
...million readers that until recently its guiding principle had been: "News is lies. No great task is ever accomplished without deceiving people." The People's Daily now proclaims, with that delicacy of language so characteristic of Communist polemics, "Falsehood in news is like rat droppings in clear soup...
...books by more celebrated restaurateurs, The Four Seasons trio present their recipes, and raisons d'être, in succinct and practical form. Elevating basic family dishes to haute cuisine, their prescriptions range from the basic soufflé and chicken pot pie to such palate pleasers as cold peach soup, filet of pompano with citrus fruits and pistachio nuts, and filet of veal with crabmeat and wild mushrooms -capped perhaps with a topless chocolate cake or a walnut tart...