Word: tastee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The modern-day preoccupation with sex enrages Muggeridge. "Like a deep-frozen, broiler-reared, cellophane-wrapped wing of chicken," he wrote, "American women tend to be more appetizing to the sight than to the taste." He is devoutly pessimistic. "The concept of this world as a wilderness, and of human...
Too disillusioned to remain on the Guardian, Muggeridge joined Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, started turning out truculent copy attacking all kinds of ideologies. When World War II broke out, he was recruited for the intelligence service and sent as an undercover agent to Mozambique. "It was a hilarious...
A Western diplomat once described Houari Boumediene as a man you had to stumble over to notice in a crowded room. At such comments, Boumediene will blush to the roots of his reddish hair. Tall, withdrawn, wraithlike, the army colonel is an authentic revolutionary, but he has so little taste...
It was Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving. He is only 35, and his rocketlike rise has come with such rapidity that it seemed that each new stage ignited before the previous one had burned out. No sooner had Director Rorimer read Hoving's graduate paper on Rome's Farnese...
The wholly new dimension that this humanistic revelation gave religious art can be seen superbly in the treasures of Munich's Alte Pinakothek, one of the world's oldest royal repositories of art. A testimony to the taste of the Wittelsbachs, who passionately collected more than 80,000...