And the martinis colder.
The signature happy hour at Meat Market Palm Beach you know, the one that lasts four hours with the $10 ice-cold Tito s martinis and the full-to-the-brim $10 glasses of champers, not that we would know was the setting for the annual-ish Pride reception to benefit the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council.
We say ish because the event was canceled last year due to the pandemic.
The gathering took place June 28 and celebrated the success of the Palm Beach County s Pride Month observance.
In addition to the tinis and the champs, the celebration included music and brief remarks from
Pearl s buck cultural biography | American literature | Cambridge University Press cambridge.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cambridge.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
by Hilary Spurling
This article was first published in the October 14, 2010 issue of
The announcement by the Swedish Academy in November 1938 that Pearl Buck had been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature was met with sarcasm and even derision by many writers and critics. They were not impressed that this was the third choice by the academy of an American writer in a mere eight years the first being Sinclair Lewis in 1930, the second Eugene O’Neill in 1936. Pearl Buck had dedicated her writing life to novels and memoirs about China, and her selection was seen as a sop to public opinion, in a world where Japanese and German war scares were becoming a reality and China was a prime victim.