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In light of the recent Omaha ar.d
Lincoln primary elections, it seems
that voter apathy exists among other
groups besides UNL students. A
whopping 20 per cent of Lincoln
voters cast their ballots in Tuesday's
primary elections. A slightly better
30 per cent of Omaha voters went to
the polls.
: While some may suggest that low
voter turnout indicates voter satis
factions with the current regimes,
the cause should go deeper than that.
But maybe there are no causes.
The voter gambles away his vote
when he lets other voters cast their
ballots for him. Unpredictable
happenings always take place in elec
tions in which voter turnout is low.
For instance, generally write-in
candidates seem to have weights on
their ankles throughout the
campaign race. But Omaha Al Veys
overcame this myth Tuesday when
he left Michael Albert tabulating his
campaign expenses.
Lincoln Election Commissioner
Bill Davidson expressed disappoint
ment at the city's polls. He said that
even lowering the voting age to 18 ha
has not increased voter turnout.
About 1 6,000 ballots were case in
Lincoln's primary election. The
22,000 students at UNL could have
had an enormous effect on the out
come of the elections. Perhaps stu
dents are ignoring the power they
could wield in city government.
letters
Praising Foreigner
In response to Doug Weil's review on
the new band Foreigner, I must add some
remarks in support of the band.
In these Jimes of heavy metal (Aero
smith, KISS, and the Led Zeppelin) 1 find
myself praising the sound of Foreigner.
Everyone should know all music today
is produced and affected by past styles.
On Foreigner you 11 hear the sound of the
Who, Wings, Bad Company Tull, Queen
and Pink Floyd.
Lou Gramm's vocals are effective. His
style is obviously moded from the Freddie
Mercury, Peter Frampton, and Roger
Daltrey style. I seem to think Brad Delp
from Boston is very comparative too.
"Cold as Ice" is by far the greatest
song on the LP. The song's backing vocals
are like Queen's classical sound.
"Headknocker" has the heavy sound of
Bad Company. Just as good is the
McCartney sound of "Starrider." Both are
supreme.
The instrumentation on the LP is excit?
ing. The classic Tommy sound of holy one
Pete Townsend (Who) are evident on "The
Damage is Done." The ending will startle
you. .
This album is almost thematic. It's like
a young Pink Floyd or Ambrosia. Please
don't mess with the commercial success
of this disc. Look at the Osmonds, they
sell millions of records but would you
really achieve Utopia with "Crazy Horses"
really. No!! Really??? -
Seriously, if you want a young, pure
and noncommercial sound, get Foreigner.
If your Boston or Foghat or pretty Peter
F. is getting worn and warped, march on
down and squeeze together $4.49 and get
it.
Danny Darst
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Carter's recipes true grits
The American publishing industry h in
grave difficulties. Authors are running out
of recipes. .
The mainstay of the industry lias long
been cookbooks. It is conservatively
estimated that more than 13,678 different
cookbooks are published in this country
each year. Unfortunately, no matter how
you mix or mash it, the number of Tccipcs
is finite. And thus the number of reasons
innocent
bystander
for bringing out a new cookbook is limited.
This rapidly-dwindling resource has test
ed the ingenuity of our authors. One who
has passed the test with flying colors is
Ceil Dyer, a veteran with no fewer than "
five previous cookbooks to her credit.
Ms. Dyer is about to hit the book stalls
with that long-awaited bombshell, The
Carter Family Favorites Cookbook,
J fcjsiay tikes vegetables
In a press release heralding the event,
her publishers announced that she had
talked to several members of the
Carter family about their favorite dishes.
"President Carter likes fresh vegetables,
according to his wife, Rosalynn," Ms. Dyer
found. "His first choke is eggplant pre
pared just about any way."
Ms. Dyer has opened a fertile field for
all cookbook writers. Eggplant alone can
be prepared in many, many ways, such as
f
fried, fc::ked, steamed or boiled. That
four recipes right there!
Rushing to capitalize on this new
bonanza, I am already hard at work on my
entry into the field, The Hoppe Family
Favorites Gxtkbook.
Aunt Addle 's recipe
Luckily, I do love to putter about the
kitchen at all hours, whipping up this and
that to tempt the palate. While 1 have
many, many favorite recipes, 1 suppose my
first choice is one that's been handed down
in my family for generations.
When I was just a tad, my Aunt Addie
(who was admittedly none too reliable)
told me this particular recipe was first
brought over to this country by my great-grcat-great-grandfather,
Jeremiah Cobcy,
who emigrated from the Isle of Man in
1763 after losing his entire herd of Manx
sheep in an outbreak of bovine coreopsis.
It is called Manx Ghlum. And here it is:
MANX GHLUM
2 slices Wonder bread, white
2 T Mary Kllen grape jelly or similar
2 T Skippy peanut butter (crunchy,
if desired)
Lay bread slirces flat on counter. Place
jelly on one. Spread carefully. Do not go
over edges. Place peanut butter on other.
Coat entire surface evenly. Avoid ""white
spots.""
Now, with a quick confident motion,
flip slice with peanut butter on top of
slice bearing jelly. Under rut circumstances
attempt to flip jellied slice on top of
peanut buttered slice.
Serve at room temperature.
(Copyright Chronicle Pt!ising Co. 1S77)
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Too much food
going to ..-waist
Look-alikes, stfund-alikcs. Can a word
be its own homonym? asks Donald M.
Maclay of Springfield, Pa., referring to
words like wear, let, and cleave, recently
cited here as words that arc spelled alike
but have different meanings. Webster's
unabridged dictionary, third edition, says a
homonym is "one of two or more words
spelled and pronounced alike but differ
ent in meaning."" I would amend that
bernstein
on words
definition by saying that words must be
pronounced alike though need not be
spelled alike. For instance, waste and
waist arc homonyms; you could say that
too much food goes to waste or waist.
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Puzzler. The number of a noun denoting
something shared by a number of persons
often presents a problem, which was taken
up here once before. The problem is easily
solved in a sentence such as 4Thc three stu
dents have interests in architecture." Gear
ly and idiomatically the noun should be
interest. But John Schneider Jr. of College
ville, Minn., asks how about this sentence:
"We must make this a part of our lives
. (life?). I would favor lives since those are
individual things, thought of separately in
this instance. The thought is not the same
as in, "The fliers plunged to their death,"
where one docs not think of individual
deaths but rather of an abstract, common
condition. Perhaps if there were three fliers
in three planes, deaths would be accept-
. able; the deaths would appear more as
individual things rather than as a common
abstraction. It is difficult to lay down a
general rule for these situations.
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Word oddities. The difference between
excuse me and pardon me is sought by
Donald W. Loomis of Philadelphia in a
letter sent to this rectangle. I am afraid he
will not get a satisfactory answer because I
shall have to indulge in guesswork. My
guess is that excuse me is and should be the
more commonly used because it sounds
less formal. The word pardon, because of
its governmental and ecclesiastical back
ground, seems to have a faint, though very
faint air of ccremoaiousness about it. If I
am wrong, pardon me and excuse me.
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Hemic and heroics are quite unrelated
in meaning. In Editor & Publisher Roy H.
Copperud quoted from a news story about
two earthquakes as follows: "Luck and
heroics saved the 13 00 people of Gazli
last spring "He points out that heroics
does not mean acts cf heroism. Rather it
means shameky extravagant, pretentious
or melodramatic conduct or talk. Astonish
ing what that little V can do.
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