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...born, 75 miles across the state and a world apart, in his father's big home in Brookline. Both Lawrence O'Brien Sr. and Myra Sweeney O'Brien were immigrants from County Cork. Myra was a proud, slender woman and a talented cook-her clam chowder, beef stew and soda bread were locally celebrated-who had worked as a domestic before her marriage. O'Brien Sr. was a scrappy redhead, and an up-and-coming real estate operator. By the time young Larry was born, his father owned a string of drab roominghouses, an insurance business...
...Pianos, Beef & Milk. Commissioned two years ago to stage The Spanish Lady, Dali dived into the project with his usual manic genius. The rising curtain revealed a ghostly painted image of Dali, mustache tips rising to eyebrows, eyes piercing the audience. As the gauze tableau faded out, the heroine came on, her two-yard-long tresses supported by a red crutch. Presently she extracted a pie-sized Dalian watch from her bosom and bestowed it on her suitor. There were other visual distractions: a colored tableau showing a large violin walking on spindly legs and stretching an arm toward...
...East German goes hungry, but his grocery supplies are at best erratic. Although formal rationing was finally abandoned in 1958, milk is in such short supply that it no longer is readily available; butter is distributed at the rate of a half-pound per person every ten days; beef is a rare luxury. To push a substitute. Ulbricht's regime in 1959 introduced "pony bars," restaurants that sell nothing but horse meat and urge customers to try "stallion steak," "foal filet," "goulash from the harness...
...pressed, and that if it was. something might well be won. Reporters at his press conference were hard put to get any headline news out of President John Kennedy's deliberately muted statements about Berlin. In Paris. NATO's foreign ministers wound up talks about ways to beef up Western Europe's forces, with the U.S. promising. if necessary, to send six additional Army divisions-but with no firm decision to hasten a showdown...
...Well, let's have-like a class." said Duskin one recent afternoon. Subject: materialism. In ambled Emerson's 13 summer students-mussed boys in need of haircuts (one beard), and ethereal girls in need of bras. Their wan look might have been due to their frugal lunch: beef broth, casaba melon. Duskin snapped them awake: "I don't allow irrelevant statements. Your comments must either advance my thought or contradict it." Firmly in control, Duskin hammered his theme-the dispassion of Homer. "Remember," he said, "Helen makes it in the end. She falls back on Menelaus...