Word: valhalla
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...fear or opportunism, yes, but some because, for all his hate mongering, he and his Nazis were a party of optimism and vitality in a beaten-down, cynical nation. When he voices his twisted but near religious belief in Germanic exceptionalism--"Do you think there are any Jews in Valhalla?"--one can despise him while understanding the source of his power. He is the personification of Yeats' line: the worst, but full of passionate intensity...
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...Harvard, Dodd has focused on mead. Mead is considered to be the first alcoholic drink brewed by men, earlier than wine or beer. It is most famous now as the beverage of the Vikings and their pantheon; in Valhalla, the Viking heaven, newcomers were welcomed with generous chalices full of mead. Dodd’s version is an uncarbonated drink made from molasses and mixed—more accurately, chased—with ginger ale and lemon juice. He brought two kinds of mead to the competition. Why mead? “I wanted to diversify from the vodka...
...Ending, most of the men dwell in a vaudeville Valhalla (the three main males are named Val, Hal and Al), while the women are the familiar Woody types, exasperated wife and perky bimbo--all played by actresses who weren't born when Allen wrote and starred in his first movie, What's New Pussycat. Allen's need to play cute with women a generation younger used to seem predatory. Now, with him fully looking his age, it's just pathetic...
...DIED. WALTER GOODMAN, 74, television critic, author and New York Times reporter; in Valhalla, New York. His 1968 book The Committee was widely praised and remains a prominent history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which under Senator Joseph McCarthy led the 1950s witch-hunt for communists...