Word: tortillas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superbly professional storyteller, but his work was at times flawed by facile allegorizing. In the preface to 1935's Tortilla Flat, an otherwise sharp and accurate novel of the innocent gaiety of the paisanos in Monterey, he wrote: "When you speak of Danny's house, you are understood to mean a unit of which the parts are men, from which came sweetness and joy, philanthropy and, in the end, a mystic sorrow. For Danny's house was not unlike the Round Table, and Danny's friends were not unlike the knights." In 1952's East...
Steinbeck published two other novels -The Pastures of Heaven, To a God Unknown-before Tortilla Flat, in 1935, became a bestseller. In Dubious Battle, dealing with an apple pickers' strike in California and the workers' exploitation by both capitalists and Communist organizers, further established his reputation, and Of Mice and Men, his fable of strength and weakness, solidified it. After 1940, however, Steinbeck produced only two major works -East of Eden and The Winter of Our Discontent-and neither equaled in power his work during...
...would have thought that canned minestrone could be sold to the Italians, instant tortilla meal to the Guatemalans, ready-to-serve treacle pudding to the British, or any culinary quickie to the French? The Americans, naturally-and U.S. food processors have done all that with remarkable success. Around the world, but especially in Western Europe, they are finding a ready market for foods processed the American way, whether they be canned, concentrated, dehydrated, frozen, precooked or ready-mixed. Last year U.S. food companies did a $3.7 billion business in foods processed abroad, and this year they are investing about...
...value of Oscar Lewis, 49, a University of Illinois anthropologist gifted with facile Spanish, a guileless face and a pleasantly disarming manner. Lewis' method is to insinuate himself into the bosom of a Mexican family and stay for months, becoming as much a household fixture as the tortilla griddle, as comfortable as a worn pair of huaraches. The pencil scribbles across the notebook pages; the recorder spools gently turn...
...CHILDREN OF SANCHEZ, by Oscar Lewis. From an unlikely source-tape-recorded interviews with five Mexico City slum dwellers-comes a work of pathos and drama. The language is fierce, rich and foul, and the folkways might startle even a resident of Tortilla Flat...