Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jonathan Swift is the Lucifer of British letters. Unfortunately, posterity has precautiously trimmed the old devil's toenails. As traditionally abridged, Gulliver's Travels is a charming classic for children. Yet Gulliver unexpurgated is no tale for tender ears; it is a ferocious assault on the human species. And Swift unsweetened is no nursery rhymester; he is the most powerful ironist since Aristophanes, the blackest of all the great blackguards who have lacerated the conscience of mankind...
There is a certain element of U.S. society that has always had a tender spot in its heart for Brazil-the crooks who go flying down to Rio to escape the law. Alone among hemisphere nations, Brazil has long refused to sign an extradition treaty with Washington, preferring to let bygones be gone. No one knows how many U.S. criminals have fled over the years, but they numbered in the hundreds...
...concentration camps of the north." Lara's fictional fate was prophetic. In 1960, after Pasternak himself died, So viet secret police arrested Olga Ivinskaya, the handsome blonde poetess who had been Pasternak's great love, soul mate, literary agent and secretary -and his model for the tender and generous Lara. It was the second time Olga had had to pay for her devotion: after the Stalin regime accused Paster nak of intellectual heresy, she spent four years in a concentration camp, was re leased only in the amnesty following Stalin's death in 1953. Last week, possibly...
Broadway was Runyon's country. In his other career as a short-story writer, he peopled the Great White Way with a tender host of Guys and Dolls -Harry the Horse, Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Mad ame LaGimp, a long parade of gold-hearted touts, pimps and whores...
...give birth." She submits to sterilization at her husband's urging, only to learn that he has got another woman with child. Her pumpkin shell bursts. Alienated from husband, family and self, she flees into a brief affair, at last learns to accept her husband as flawed, faithless, tender, selfish and, for her, inevitable...