Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proving that they do not think at all." In much the same way, Skinner says that behaviorism has helped him to "resolve [his] early fear of theological ghosts," which his grandmother instilled in him by equating the concept of hell with the glowing bed of coals in his parlor stove. One might, the young liberty bound-selling boy scout lay awake all night "in an agony of fear" after seeing a travelling magician's show that featured a devil "complete with horns and barbed tall." Perhaps as a result of this aversive conditioning, Skinner now views God as a "fraud...
...bassest soprano since The Love for Three Oranges. Best of all, I think, is Peter Zurkow as the perpetually befuddled queen, a well-meaning though not very intelligent Edith Bunker of a monarch who wants to turn back from her escape because she forgot to turn the stove off, and who pours the royal treasury's last gold into a rift in the earth because she's "always been generous to a fault...
...freshest food. The chefs will go to market that same morning to choose the food and then they will take over the Elysee Palace kitchen. The wine will be mostly vintage '26, the year in which both Bocuse and Giscard were born. Bocuse has already approved the stove: "It is a real old-fashioned one that is perfect to cook...
...year-old Norwegian maid, her employers, the Nelson Rockefellers, were very odd. One night, when they were late, she left dinner on the stove and went off to a party in Brooklyn. Next day Nelson's first wife, Mary Clark Rockefeller, demonstrated the helplessness of the very rich. "AnneMarie, what happened to you last night? I had to take my husband to Hamburg Heaven." That was only the beginning, as Anne-Marie Rasmussen reveals in her autobiography There Was Once a Time. Contrary to the American Dream, Second Son Steven had no sooner married her in 1959 than they...
Every clod has its silver lining, and for each insultee there are thousands who would not light a stove without consulting the proprietor. Jackie Onassis is a devoted customer, as are Johnny Carson, Nelson Rockefeller, Danny Kaye and the Kennedys. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel buys supplies from the store; so does Pan American Airways...