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Some Houses are supposed to be "better" than others. They may acquire this reputation because their masters have strong personalities, because their food is better, their squash courts more resilient, and so on. There are personality differences among the Houses; there are even large personality differences in two or three...
As Hardie sat down last week at his desk in his government corporation's shiny new London office, his bureaucratic machinery was not even in low gear. Said one of his assistants: "We're still busy trying to acquire secretaries and typewriters. Even our tea is hardly organized...
The trick of guarding the flavor is to heat it just enough. Too little heating allows it to oxidize and acquire a "cappy" (i.e., bottle cap) flavor. Too much heating makes it taste cooked. The best bet, says DOA, is to heat grade-A milk to 155° for 30...
Bing has also persuaded his singers that the Met comes first. He generally insists that they be on hand for a minimum of ten weeks a season; nowadays, stars who used to drop in at the Met to sing four or five times a year, almost at their own convenience...
Scene II was Korea. Two wounded boys "strutted about the stage explaining to the children that American gangsters had attacked the Korean people, to acquire their natural resources . . . Then the plane flew to the Soviet paradise. The children were received by Soviet youth with flags and fanfare . . . told they should...