Word: yeastrol
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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When they finally give up and decide that vegetarianism will not flourish in an impoverished country of starving, terrorized peasants controlled by the secret police, pack up their yeastrol and barmene, their departure is called "heroic." That such indomitable optimists are set back by Haiti is supposed to show us how terrible the situation is, but all it does is make us cringe with embarrassment for their feeble, blundering blindness...
...hotel-emptied of tourists by Papa Doc Duvalier's inhospitable island regime-that he has been unable to sell in the States. Smith, a 1948 U.S. presidential candidate who polled 10,000 votes on the vegetarian ticket, dreams of converting the Haitians to a diet of Yeastrol and Nuttoline. Jones drifts in and out of focus as an ambiguous, flat-footed soldier of fortune so encircled by his enemies that Port au Prince is his last remaining port of call...
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