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...field is real only in the imaginations of the 15 men-one wearing a peace button-who surround it. In fact, it is a 5-by-8-ft. table covered with carefully scaled fields and forests, and populated by immaculately realistic toy soldiers. The only thing actually flowing is ale. The men are gathered, as is their monthly custom, in a private room over the Ordnance Arms, a pub in London's Southwark. The Society of Ancients is staging the twelfth battle of its miniaturized Wars of the Roses. But did the Battle of Pleshey actually occur? Not bloody...
...they are different. She recently gave a dinner for 20 well-known Republicans, ten of whom turned out to be nondrinking Mormons. Valiantly the hostess tried to disguise the situation by serving the teetotalers Vichy water instead of the first wine, Evian water instead of the second and ginger ale instead of champagne. But it was wasted effort. "A drag," reported one of the drinkers afterward...
Shorris is inflexible on only one point: "Don't serve colas or other dark sodas with fish. The flavor of fish tends to sour them on the palate." Instead, he counsels, try ginger ale, Seven-Up or any other lemon-lime-base beverage...
Stout is out, and so are other masculine drinks like ale and porter. Even beer "has a much thinner taste," according to Winick. The tastelessness of convenience foods like instant coffee "helps reinforce our acceptance of the neuter" in the rest of our culture. In ballet, adults adore the unisexuality of Nureyev; in books, children prefer easy-to-read real-life adventures to fairy tales with their "idealized, romantic rolemodels of the masculine and feminine...
Still, the image which Bundy projects is that of a corporate man. A ?ale graduate, Harvard dean, State Department power, Ford Foundation president-Harvard could not choose a man more intimately tied to the bureaucratic side of every major establishment institution in the country. And with the least bit of forethought...