Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STILWELL AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA, 1911-45, by Barbara W. Tuchman. American military and diplomatic blunders and the rarely sweet, often sour effects of the culture gap between the U.S. and China during World...
...sorts, but one of liberation. Until the last few days, when it appeared that Pakistani troops would make a final stand in the city, the Indian army was awaited calmly and without fear. Most people went about their usual business - offices were open, rickshas running and pushcarts plying. The sweet tea of the street stalls drew the same gabby old fellows with white beards. The mood of the overwhelming majority of Bengalis was less one of apprehension than pent-up anticipation. Said one Bengali journalist: "Now we know how the Parisians felt when the Allies were approaching...
...Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald Barthelme. Unpaged. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.95. Fantasist Barthelme goes through his own looking glass and comes back with a young Alice named Mathilda, some elegant chatter, "a hithering thithering Djinn," and a Chinese lunch that includes sweet and sour ice cream. Most of the pictures-cutouts culled from Victorian-style engravings -are too static for children, though the storm scene (from Gustave Doré's illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) is splendid...
...Catholic who frowned on the decline of Lenten fasting, he justified cultivation of the senses as the divine right of man as lord of nature. "It is for him that the quail fattens, for him that mocha has so sweet a perfume," he observed simply. It followed naturally that gourmandism should be neither gluttony nor voracity but "the impassioned, considered and habitual preference for whatever pleases the taste...
...goes. Eventually the professor decides that candy money may be the answer to the world's monetary problems, and devises an arrangement of soft currencies quickly dubbed the Marzi Plan. In the end he makes off with a sweet thing from the typing pool, remembering Ogden Nash's advice that "licorice quicker...