Word: stew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle America. Imagine Winesburg, Ohio or Faulkner's Sartor is as they might have been written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Bulging with genius and philosophy, the poet paints the dusty jailhouse and the bumptious mayor of Batavia, N.Y. He records the hairs in the disappointed husband's stew, quotes upbeat statistics from the Reader's Digest. But with the same acceptance of reality he observes the growling of the mastiff bitch as dark spirits pass, repeals the laws of gravity at will and marks the fall of the dead ("And every soul, it passed me by, like...
...transducer, which converted the instrument's output into electronic signals. The signals were then mixed, balanced, amplified and blown out at the audience through loudspeakers. The effect was sometimes as intense and attention-riveting as listening to records through earphones; too often it was more a nightmarish stew of French horns sounding like tubas, trumpets like cornets, strings like wood saws. It did not help, of course, that Revenaugh had to surrender the conductor's usual command over tone and blending to the man at the sound console...
...strikes could not have come at a worse time for Allende or the Chilean economy. Inflation for the first nine months of this year is a staggering 99.8% . The price of sirloin steak, on the rare occasions it has been available, has increased 200% ; stew beef is up 116%, powdered milk 166%. Wheat and bread are in short supply. Butter has disappeared. But real hunger threatened only momentarily when food stores closed in a strike two weeks ago, until the army ordered them to reopen...
...Republican strategy this year has long been obvious. In the manner of any incumbent with a solid lead, Nixon means to let McGovern stew in his own frustrations, to make McGovern himself the issue as long as possible. The race this fall has in fact been no campaign at all in the customary sense. The Republican President scarcely seems a candidate; the man who barely gained a 43.4% plurality in 1968 sits now in distant, almost imperial self-satisfaction while the polls promise landslides...
...social stew has continued to boil, however. Even Fiedler, a once-morally committed and sometimes brilliant writer, announced in lecture the dating of his attitudes: the rest of us can now clearly see them as relevant only to crazed plastic aesthetes and pop anthropologists...