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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without great flaws. The barracks vulgarity of Part 1 is as tedious as basic training, and the narrator's stilted diction in Part 2 is hardly more en dearing. Women serve principally as walk-ons in The Vicar of Christ, including Declan's wife Kate, whose tragic death drives him to the monastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Justice of The Peace | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...hell with spinach. For the venturesome home gardener, there is a new sweet pepper, Dutch Treat, whose pungent fruits progress from yellow to orange to red and are edible at all stages; it comes, naturally, from Holland. There is also an improved version of the so-called yard-long bean, a.k.a. Orient Express or asparagus bean because of its asparaginous flavor. From China come bitter melon, gow choy, a garlicky chive, bok choy cabbage, and an aromatic celery, heung kuhn -all valuable for good wokmanship. A Japanese melon called Honey Drip is described by its originators as "intolerably delicious." Vegetable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Succulent New Vegetables | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...inch thick but a foot long and is ideal for freezing; other innovations include the first bush-type butternut squash and a tomato, Long-Keeper, that stays fresh up to four months after picking. The redoubtable Burpee catalogue alone offers such enticements as the spacemaster cucumber, a pumpkin whose seeds can be eaten raw, and Sugar Bush watermelon, which represent years of genetic selection not only for flavor but -more important to the home gardener -for compact growth in a limited space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Succulent New Vegetables | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...other parts of the country and were eventually taped on refrigerators from New York to California. Not surprisingly, the good doctor was prevailed upon to write a book, padding his original diet with 244 pages of familiar advice and additional menus. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet (Rawson, Wade; $7.95), whose cover boasts, LOSE UP TO 20 POUNDS IN 14 DAYS AND KEEP THEM OFF, has sold some 270,000 copies since it was published last January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Diet of the Hour | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson intimidated a scrappy Yale team Saturday at the Business School Field, scooping, shoving and finally shooting its way to a 13-9 victory. That makes an impressive string of six wins in a row for the stickmen, whose only two losses to date this season have come at the hands of a pair of genuine lax heavyweights-- Johns Hopkins and Cornell (by the agonizing score...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Laxmen Quickstick Elis, 13-9; Crimson Raises Record to 7-2 | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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