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...enough. Irma Rombauer had sampled some of the pleasures of European cooking when her father served for several years as American consul in Bremen. In those turn-of-the-century days, directions for more exotic dishes were almost always in French, and began: "Make a white sauce, stir until ready." Or: "Simmer your leftover grouse for 36 hours and season to taste with duxelles." Irma Rombauer had no idea how to make a white sauce or what duxelles was-even her young lawyer husband, a longtime camper, could cook better than she could-but she set out to find...
With sly, leisurely humor, Novelist Amado records the stir made in Ilhéus as the fitful-sometimes barely perceptible -winds of progress blow. There is nothing that is not affected by modernism. Everyone is full of admiration when Colonel Jesuino Mendonga, after discovering his wife and his dentist in conversation (he in the nude, she wearing only a pair of long black stockings), shoots both of them. The colonel's conduct was impeccable under the ancient code for settling marital differences, and even liberals in Ilhéus are shocked when a court finds him guilty and sentences...
...Gabriela's husband? Naturally he is fat Nacib, the saloonkeeper. Who crawls in Nacib's window when Nacib is tending bar? No one but oily Tonico, the seducer. Will Tonico succeed in getting back out when Nacib comes home unexpectedly? Ah, now there is a question to stir discussion in Ilhéus, just as it has fascinated readers in its countless variants across the centuries...
Among Hungarian authors who helped stir the people to revolt in 1956, none was more famous than Novelist Tibor Dery. His Niki: The Story of a Dog, a powerful satire on Stalinism in Hungary, was published on the eve of the uprising and immediately became a bestseller. For his role in the revolution, the Janos Kadar puppet regime sentenced Dery to nine years in prison...
Something went wrong this year. Although it has been in Cambridge but three weeks, '66 has already caused quite a stir, both in the Administration and among upper-classmen. Instead of docilely going through the motions of attending opening lectures, seminars and generally keeping quietly within the heavy iron gates that guard the Yard, the Freshman Class has quickly proclaimed that it intends to become an active and influential sector of the College...