Word: starbucks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less surly than usual, but mostly this Broadway revival gets into the right spirit. The set, a swath of brown prairie dominated by an expanse of blue sky, seems ready at any moment to disgorge the cast of Oklahoma!, and the story of a smooth-talking drifter named Starbuck who comes to a drought-plagued Western community and promises to bring rain is full of corn-fed blather about the importance of dreams. "You don't believe in nothin'--not even yourself," Starbuck tells Lizzie, the plain farm woman whose brothers and father are desperately trying to marry...
...Still another name prefigured our fellow Starbucks. Terry first opted for Pequod, after Melville's ship, but Gordon contested that no one would want to drink at the Pequod. Instead, Gordon wanted a title associated with his native Seattle and went hunting for names in Washington state mountains. He liked the sound of a turn-of-the-century coal mine by the name of Starbo, which reminded Terry's literary penchant of Starbuck. Melville would cringe at the association...
...from the raging romantic, Melville's Starbuck was a prudent husband of sober Christian morals. He was the one mariner not afraid to confess his fear of whales, a problematic phobia on a whaling expedition. At the end of the book (sorry to give away those suspenseful 300 last pages), when the ship's captain ruthlessly pursues omnipotent Moby Dick, Starbuck contemplates mutiny. But, his respect for authority outweighs Starbuck's determination to return alive to wife and kids. He puts back the knife and ultimately drowns with the rest of the crew, while chasing the whale. Not quite...
...only mention of food in relation to Melville's Starbuck pertains to his flesh as hard as twice-baked biscuit and live blood that would not spoil like bottled ale. Starbucks Coffee, however, provides neither ale nor twice-baked biscuits. The name has lost all tinge of its literary flavor, evoking instead a mega-chain flavor--a status achieved thanks to our contribution of big bucks...
...only mention of food in relation to Melville's Starbuck pertains to his flesh as hard as twice-baked biscuit and live blood that would not spoil like bottled ale. Starbucks Coffee, however, provides neither ale nor twice-baked biscuits. The name has lost all tinge of its literary flavor, evoking instead a mega-chain flavor--a status achieved thanks to our contribution of big bucks...