Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rides the rails these days? In the sparsely populated coach sections, many passengers are black families with irrepressibly active children; for them the unfettered train trip is clearly more comfortable and practical than airliner or bus. A number of elderly passengers, mostly occupying bedrooms and roomettes, relish the scenery and the food -in no hurry. The surprising thing about the passenger roster is the proportion of young people aboard. Footloose and relatively affluent, they represent a new youth fad: a return to the rails, sanctioned for every environmental, ecological and romantic reason...
Instead of battling Big Business, a fight that many environmental groups seem to relish, the Conservancy attempts to work with large land-holding corporations, identifying unused but ecologically valuable lands. Then it hammers out arrangements that make it worthwhile for a company either to donate them or sell them at a price the organization can afford to pay. "We don't belabor businessmen with their past sins," explains Conservancy President Patrick Noonan. "What we talk about instead is the parts of the environment they can help save." Business men seem impressed by this combination of philanthropy and sound finance...
Copper Gold by Pauline Glen Winslow (St. Martin's; $8.95). A former Fleet Street court reporter who now lives in Greenwich Village, Winslow, fortyish, focuses on swingin' London's demimonde with Hogarthian relish. Her world of pushers, prossies, punks and rotting Establishment pillars is counterpointed by the decent, diligent coppers who come a cropper. What might otherwise have been a merely expert Scotland Yard procedural is elevated by Soho low jinks and, believe it or not, a pervasive and finally persuasive romanticism...
...them-take on the American medical profession. In the rude manner of Paddy Chayefsky's Hospital, House Calls suggests that doctors spend more time thinking about tax shelters and fancy cars than surgical procedures or professional ethics. The film's one outright hilarious character, played with vaudevillian relish by Art Carney, is a chief of surgery so senile that he says good morning to empty hospital stairwells...
...hustler. The film's best scenes show him at his office dickering with the fast-talking agents who assaulted him day and night. McIntire listens to auditioning singers for only a few bars before turning thumbs up or down, and he exercises his power with sleazy theatrical relish. Unfortunately, even McIntire cannot fill in the movie's most gaping holes: we never do learn about Freed's personal life or even how the man discovered his then radical professional calling...