Word: yam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the standard North American Christmas dinner about as predictable as a Norman Rockwell rendering, the time has come to borrow from other countries their versions of foods that seem traditionally American: the turkey, the yam, the potato, the pumpkin. For starters, how about pumpkin soup? Or bawd bree, the rich hare broth of Scotland? It might be followed by Colombia's pato borracho (drunken duckling) or Gaelic roastit bubblyjock wi' cheston crappin (roast turkey with chestnuts) and rumblede-thumps (creamed potatoes and cabbage). Dessert could be Mexican torta del cielo, or a rum-flavored nut tart from...
...this quixotic journey, however, Ellison's unnamed protagonist had not yet resolved the paradox of his American identity. Even though he discovers the roots of his identity in Harlem ("I yam what I yam!" he says), at the end of his journey, he still has not yet discovered "the next phase," as he puts it, and so can only...
...first move last week was to free a prominent dozen of the prisoners. Observers applauded, but waited to see how the new leader would handle the problem that has now toppled three governments: galloping inflation, which runs over 100% a year and puts a basic meal of yam and milk beyond a laborer's average daily wage-about...
...directors seem intent on pandering to the yens of teen-agers with such potboiler adventures as Nihon Chimbotsu (Submersion of Japan) and with action comedies centering on everyday life like Turaku Yam (Truck Rascals). Another new trend is toward the realistic documentation of World War II. Advance into the Pacific made use of combat footage shot by both American and Japanese cameramen. Hero in the Sky, a film about one of Japan's greatest wartime aces, may end up violating the postwar taboo on celebrating Japanese feats...
...essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment." That caricature of the desiccated plant-eater still pervades the English-speaking world. The very language is meaty with bias. Imagine a Beaneater martini, a fatted kale, a yam actor, a string of Turnip 'n' Brew restaurants...