Word: spicing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hard Life, Flann O'Brien, a lionized Dublin novelist, columnist and licensed literary legpuller, has served all this brew with a difference. In place of the spice of hot rage (at Irish meanness) or the sticky sauce of garrulous sentiment (about Irish foible) that so often dress up the dish, he uses deadpan understatement...
...taken as Dr. Saroyan's Sunday sermons for the new year. The writing, at any rate, is that of a Sunday writer, but one who can do a fairly good take-off on William Saroyan, improving on his original by means of a slight admixture of avant-garde spice...
...mustache? Who was the world's most productive mother? No standard reference book troubles with such trivia, but an offbeat guide called The Guinness Book of Records answers such questions with gusto. And because it does, Guinness has become a useful handbook for any newspaperman who wants to spice a story with a few superlatives. Last week the second U.S. edition was rolling off the presses with the latest answers to unlikely questions: the world's mustache champ, says the new Guinness, is Masudiya Din. a Bombay Brahman who sports 6 ft. 4 in. of lip adornment...
...theoretical approach, his therapeutic technique concentrates on the analysis of symbol formation in dreams and from free associations. Symbolism belongs to the It (as it does to the Freudian Id), and thoughtful insights into examples of individual and cultural symbols such as the bisexuality of Christ on the Cross spice the entire book. More important for us, Groddeck brings to light some striking instances of symbolic symptom construction that modern psychoanalytic theory seems to have neglected...
...inimitable Norris Hoyt and the Harvard Yacht Club reunited in salty embrace last night as Hoyt presented his quasi-annual "What I did last summer" in the Harvard Union Common Room. The popular yachtsman was primed with spice and slides to accompany the narration of his European tour and races and his eleven-day transatlantic crossing on the racing yacht Figure...