Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind the wat is a shack where the coffins are kept before cremation; and behind that, near a patch of sweet potatoes, the crematorium sits in a clearing under a shed, like a doll's chapel. There is no activity there today. But the wat itself is busy with a festival marking the last day of the Buddhist Lent. A monk in yellow sits cross-legged on a table, while children crouched in a circle burn incense. The smoke is supposed to fly to heaven in order to beckon their ancestors to descend and join them...
...star by any other name is not so sweet to astronomers...
...socially brutish. In her emphasis on people's "moral style," Mrs. Trilling defends a moral basis for all manner of social interaction. She relates a parable of dining etiquette, of once mentioning table manners while eating as a guest in one of the Harvard Houses. "It was very sweet," she says, "because when I said this to a group of students, they all became very self-conscious. One got up to get himself a glass of water, and stopped and looked around and said, `Can I get you a glass of water?' and I thought it is so touching because...
...Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. The author of The World According to Garp introduces a sweet, dangerous dreamer who transports his odd family from New England to the city of waltzes and Wittgenstein...
...will be in the Reagan White House, where 19 members of the family and close friends will come for Christmas dinner. To accompany the turkey, the President will get his favorite sweet potatoes with marshmaUows and even some monkey bread, a thick, spongy concoction he relishes. The White House is laced with vivid red, green, gold and white decorations. There is a giant bunch of mistletoe in the foyer, a 19½-ft. Douglas fir from Spartansburg, Pa., and the gingerbread house in the State Dining Room has a jelly bean path to the door...