Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GOLDEN FRUITS by Nathalie Sarraute. 177 pages. Braziller. $4. Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? -T. S. Eliot...
Alan Sillitoe, whose first short novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, made him famous overnight at 30, is now in a fair way to becoming the laureate of the losers-the spivs, tea-leaves and no-hopers who never quite made it into Britain's working class...
Clobbering Friends. In his bedroom, Paley has an Eames chair facing a thing that looks like a tea caddy, with three small Sony TV sets on it. Picking up a remote-control gismo, he flicks CBS, ABC and NBC into life and says, "You see, I can shut one off and watch the other two." Click. "Or I can shut two off." Click. "Or I can shut them all off," he adds, with a particularly satisfied click...
...lumberman and storekeeper in tiny Buctouche, N.B. (pop. 1,000), K. C. Irving early demonstrated the Midas touch. At five he sold the produce of his backyard garden (2? per cucumber); at ten he marketed the foil saved up from tea packages (4? per lb.). As a young man he sold Model Ts, and Fords led him logically to gas pumps. He started Irving Oil by installing a 10,000-gal. gasoline tank in his home town. From there, oil guided him into bus lines, tankers and refining...
When you get home, you will want carefully to roast the seeds on any metal tray, if necessary in the bottom of a tea pot. But even as you walk you may reflect that not for nothing is the hero of Spanish romance, the center of a thousand battles, legends and dramas, the perpetual inspiration to duty and right, that transcendent entity known as El Seed...