Word: bread
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have brought no rescue squad, I am not running as a protege," continued Kennedy in his latest bread-and-butter speech for committed crowds. He had stressed the same points in New York last wekend...
...crusading zeal by calling him "Charles d'Arc." But lately Le Canard has taken to picturing De Gaulle with a crown and wearing the robes of Charlemagne or Louis XV ("Aprés le déluge, moi!"). As the Sun King himself, De Gaulle is shown crying: "Bread! Next, they'll be asking for cars and washing machines...
...soon. To answer the inevitable question, the junta chose as its spokesman Lawyer Fortin Magana. It "definitely will not be of the Cuban type,'' he said. To a crowd outside the palace he called: "Because we believe that you deserve more than a crumb of bread and justice is precisely why we are here." How much more than a crumb it would take to keep El Salvador pacified remained to be seen...
Building like Bread. In the 18th century reign of reason, the cathedral almost became useful in another sense; only its sheer size kept it from being blown up and quarried for stone like many another great church. In 1794 the lead roof was stripped to make bullets, and during the liberation of France in World War II six Nazis used its north tower as a snipers' nest. War and religious strife have broken the hands and heads of saints, smashed panes of irreplaceable glass. Even worse wreckers were the 19th century restorers who plastered the apse with inanities-candelabra...
...poet, critic, scholar and esthetic perfectionist. There is Pound the economic crank, anti-Semite and Fascist apologist. There is Pound the expatriate bohemian, the discoverer, friend, advocate and ally of Eliot and Joyce, who got them into print. He begged, wheedled, scolded, scandalized others and scanted himself to secure bread-and-but ter money for them and for many another subsequently famed writer. In that role he was, as Horace Gregory once called him, "a minister of the arts without portfolio...