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SEVERAL HARVARD STUDENTS this winter made their way down to the richly festive New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations, and along with their descriptions of the parades, balls and strings of brightly colored beads, they returned with some shocking snippets of overheard conversation. As one of the main floats in the Mardi Gras procession passed by, with black men and women dressed as slaves spinning batons and running alongside the float, one well-dressed, slightly inebriated New Orleans citizen was heard to remark, "They really do look like monkeys, don't they?" The remark at first stunned the Harvard visitors...
...Paris, and a series of strikes closed Michelin and other factories in the provinces. Despite the new malaise, people maintained traditional festivities and gaiety on New Year's Eve and strangers embraced at midnight along the Champs-Elysees, as they have in past years. But beneath all the foie gras, champagne and confetti ran an undercurrent of uncertainty and concern about the 1978 parliamentary elections. Now less than ten weeks away, the impending vote may decisively influence the future course of France...
...great number of our countrymen will not be cooking ye Xmas turkey or ye mince pie at all. They are instead preparing outlandish dishes that I can barely spelle or pronownce. These platters have such names as ortolans á la périgourdine, chausson de jambon au foie gras et truffes, polio in umido, media yemista, klephtiko charti, kalua pig, civet de lievre, poularde de Bresse a la demi-deuil, moussaka, agnello in vescica con ginepro, frit-tatas, beignets, gaufrettes, gazpacho, gefullte Schweinerippchen, pastello di pesce, dim sum, kaeng keao wan, shashlik, crudites, ratatouille, pho, ktapodi krassato, calfs head (aargh!) caillou...
...lined up opening day to marvel at the glittering objects found in the tomb of the boy pharaoh who lived in the 14th century B.C. (TIME, May 2). Now it is New Orleans' turn, and though the exhibit has effectively been presented, some of that old Mardi Gras madness has rubbed off on the Egyptian god-king...
...soup and mussel bar. NATIONALIZATION IS THE WAY TO A MORE BEAUTIFUL LIFE was the message next to a cotton candy and candy apple stand. The leftist slogan, FOR A REAL CHANGE, was plastered on the walls of hundreds of booths displaying such gastronomical luxuries as pate de foie gras from the Gascogne and oysters from Arcachon. The scene was the annual ideological carnival sponsored by the Communist daily L'Humanité last week in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve-a uniquely Gallic blend of gourmet food, Marxist rhetoric and midway attractions. Nearly 9,300 new members were...