Word: vegetarians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need for what he calls "complementary medicine"--that is, "looking at a person not so much as a machine, but as the whole, in a classic, ancient sense." Charles is drawn to asceticism: he apparently fasts occasionally and rarely eats red meat. He shies away from being called a vegetarian, maintaining that he simply prefers fish and fowl. Diana, who also eschews meat, attributes her imperial slimness (which some palace watchers have whispered was anorexia) to the fact that at public functions "it's impossible to talk and eat at the same time...
...opinion from students on food at the Union varies. "Dinner is terrible," says one freshman who preferred to remain unidentified. Holly Covin '89 was more specific in her complaints: "They could do better for vegetarians," she says. Although the Union is careful to provide at least one vegetarian entree per meal, Covin says, "They think all we like is egg plant...
...some students the limit creates certain problems. "I am a vegetarian on a fruit diet so I don't often eat any of the entrees," said Sean Rockett '89. "I need fruits and vegetables for my meals. This limit means that I will not be able to take as much as I need to survive...
...time, Dolby also has been producing a much-touted band from Scotland with the world's wimpiest name, Prefab Sprout. Contrary to popular belief, this group, headed by the brothers McAloon, did not pick up their moniker from a vegetarian dish at a SoHo restaurant--but they might as well have. Soft-pop is a term too readily used by critics: lately, it serves to describe everyone from Huey Lewis to X. Instead, let's call this musical melange soft-porn: it is that foul...
...political Shaw bombinates in the wings: "Socialism without compulsory labor and ruthless penalization of idleness and exploitation is nothing but a hopeless confusion of Socialism with Liberalism." And the vegetarian is never far away: "I do not eat flesh, fish or fowl . . . You can be Sancho Panza on any food provided there is enough of it. If you want to be Pythagoras, you have to be more careful...