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...banquet if they'd dig my foxhole for me. I'd pull wild onions out of the ground and somebody would come along with a rabbit or a chicken, and I'd make us a feast over an open fire." One day recently, he concocted a tomato gravy flavored with every spice in the kitchen, poured it over toast and called it breakfast...
...more than as an academic necessity. After the usual jockeying for a topic to discuss, he gradually worked himself into a discussion of the (to him) shameful neglect with which Harvard's American Civilization program is supervised. One could sense the need of this tenured man from a coastal tomato field to assert his own identity by striking out at that oppressive ogre in Cambridge, through me, the local embodiment. Suddenly, I found myself defending Harvard's tough-mindedness, its neglect of graduate students in the name of intellectual individualism. I was rebuking this man of the West with...
...starlets who fit the mood of the return to romance. There is, for example, Margot Kidder, a Love Story hater ("Two marshmallow people marching around trying to be brave") and one of the great bodies of the Western world as well as the Tomato Surprise of Quackser Fortune. Or Carrie Snodgress, unforced, radiant star of the arch, dim Diary of a Mad Housewife. Perhaps the most technically skilled of the new romanticists, she insists...
...shall go back to the South Wales village I came fromPontrhydyfen. Elizabeth will still be superbly dressed, but the double chin she has had from childhood will become a third chin, and she'll be asking me to get her a vodka and tomato juice at 10:30at night, I hasten to add instead of 6:30 as at present." On money: "We both try to live up to the rules of easy wealth. Elizabeth treats it all as fairy money. She scatters it. I am pretty cute business-wise. Some time...
Conservationists are pleased because the quiet Indianan turns out to have a significant record of prosecuting polluters. A graduate of Harvard Law School ('60), he got his first whiff of the task as a deputy attorney general in his home state, when he investigated a tomato cannery for emitting such terrible stinks that townspeople suffered from "olfactory fatigue" and could smell nothing. He went on to file suits against numerous corporations and municipalities for their pollution practices. In 1963 he drafted the Indiana Air Pollution Control Act, which imposed strict standards on local governments and empowered the state...