Word: squid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fink Is a Squid. No greater praise can be bestowed on a person, place or thing in California than to be bitchin (a shortened, reverse-English form of sons o' bitchin'). Degrees of superiority at Colorado College begin with mean, work up toward brutal and savage. The ancient real cool is still admired at tradition-hobbled Harvard, but the University of Florida has gone on to zero cool, and Colorado College's cool denotes square. How bad is that? reflects admiration; to be unreal is to be impressive...
...miss a splotch of the local color: a massive bowl of sinister black spaghetti that turns out to be white spaghetti slathered with an old Sicilian specialty, squid-ink sauce; a battle-royal between two skinny, toothless, fierce old men who roll about the rocky landscape hissing and ripping and snapping at each other like a couple of scorpions; a statue of the Virgin held in particular veneration by the Mafia: she has big soft, sentimental eyes-and her hand supports a skull...
...Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, 49, research professor of Britain's Royal Society, who works at Cambridge, and Andrew Fielding Huxley,* 45, of London's University College, the wets, have worked together in detailed study of the giant nerve cells of squid...
...canned minnows from Poland, hearts of palm from Brazil, 180 different varieties of honey, and Scandinavian sardines packed in six kinds of sauce. There are instant coffees from at least a score of countries, including Hungary and Arabia; there are quail eggs and cuttle fish (a member of the squid family) packed in their own ink. And there are betel nuts, which, excepting coffee and tea, rank as the most widely used narcotic in the world...
...Cumaná, Venezuela, Philip Lusardi, 27, of San Diego asked fishermen how they were doing at catching squid, which is profitable because Latin Americans consider it a delicacy, happily pay high prices for it whenever it is available. The fishermen replied that their squid catch was awful. Why? Well, squid were just too smart to be caught in wholesale numbers. Lusardi squatted in the sand, and the fishermen gathered round while he sketched diagrams of a net-and-jar technique that European fishermen use to outsmart squid. It worked in Venezuela-and Phil Lusardi is king of the beach...