Word: zucchini
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...word can, in some use, take on that extra baggage of bias or sentiment that makes for the truly manipulative word. Even the pronoun it becomes one when employed to report, say, that somebody has what it takes. So does the preposition in when used to establish, perhaps, that zucchini quiche is in this year: used just so, in all but sweats with class bias. The emotion-heavy words that are easiest to spot are epithets and endearments: blockhead, scumbum, heel, sweetheart, darling, great human being and the like. All such terms are so full of prejudice and sentiment that...
...lemon spaghetti. A handy companion book is Teresa Gilardi Candler's Vegetables the Italian Way (McGraw-Hill; $12.95). Candler, the daughter of a restaurant family in Turin, brings the U.S. a choice, non-cultist collection of vegetable recipes that include such rare surprises as artichoke bread, zucchini chocolate cake and artichokes with filets of sole...
This is not to say the plague of caterpillars is all that concerns us. Such traditional summer amusements as malicious zucchini giving and sanctimonious woodpiling are still practiced...
...zucchini jest depends on the pretense that these monstrous garden tumors are edible and on the certain knowledge that in a New Hampshire family, what has been cooked as food, however pulpy and woeful, must be eaten. Woodpiling is a form of boastfulness left over from colonial times, and it consists of erecting in plam sight an unnecessarily large and stately pile of cordwood, with plumb sides and flashy square corners. Such a fortress wrests envy, respect and despair, as it is intended to, from all New Hampshire males and a good many homesteading females who have not yet bucked...
...slight man, his pockets ajangle with quarters, strolled into the Criterion Restaurant in Manhattan Beach, Calif., one afternoon last week and ordered the house specialty, fried zucchini with Parmesan cheese. He then walked to the pay phone and dialed a number in New York City. As he chatted on and on, the telephone rang near by in Manhattan Beach police headquarters. The Brooklyn district attorney's office was calling to ask that the man on the phone in the coffee shop be arrested. The police hustled over, and Sergeant Jack Mair approached the caller from behind. "I tapped...