Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After relishing sweet reviews of my play, God Is a (Guess What?) [Dec. 27] from eight of the major New York critics, your man's bitter but beautiful blast was refreshing. However, it reminds me of a story about George Bernard Shaw. After a curtain speech at the opening of one of his plays, Mr. Shaw was greeted with great applause by all of the audience save one man who expressed his opinion with a resounding "Boo!" G.B. looked up into the balcony where the dissenter sat. Then said he genially, "I heartily agree with you, my dear fellow...
...Thursday nights, Sundays and holidays. Still, Palomares was a singularly prosperous town. As its lead and silver mines, discovered by the Phoenicians, finally petered out over the past 30 years, the miners were given severance pay in land instead of pesetas. Pride of ownership and an abundance of sweet water from deep wells coaxed from the arid land the best tomatoes in all of Almeria province. Since the bombs fell, the tomato crops have failed six successive times. Palomarenos blame radioactivity, but the failure may well be due to other causes. Drought has turned Palomares' water brackish...
...true "stone soul" dish is chitterlings, pronounced "chitlins." These are the small intestines of a pig, boiled, marinated, then smothered with "Louisiana hot sauce," served with turnip or collard greens, black-eyed peas and hot corn bread. The meal is traditionally topped off with a slice of sweet-potato pie, a delicacy regarded as soulful even by Southern aristocrats...
Chuck Berry was so much the Jimi Hendrix rolled-into-Mick-Jagger of his times in the sense of being a demonaic force, tinged with evil and unabashed about it. When he sings "Sweet Little Sixteen," about the girl with the 'woman blues" who loves to wear "tight dresses and lipstick, high heel shoes" but then must "change and go to school," the thought that he was jailed for years for statutory rape (Rage that he was sent to jail, delight that he knows what he's singing about...
TURPIN, by Stephen Jones. Beginning with the circumcision of a golden retriever and lurching from ludicrous deaths to outrageous depravities, this sweet and savage novel bares the terrors that hide beneath the surface of apparently calm minds...