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...irony is that the social heights to which Crystal aspires operate on a code of ethics no more elevated than hers. These women lie, cheat on their cheating husbands, booze it up and assassinate each other's characters between brunch and bridge. Even while she gives tongue to their malice, Mrs. Luce clearly sees them as parasites who neither toil nor spin, except for their cunning webs of mischief. Like a social anthropologist, she follows these felines to their lairs-exercise parlors, hairdresser sessions, nightclub powder rooms. In an all-female play, these scenes cater to the U.S. male...
...guest of honor at just such an affair, talking about the struggles of my childhood and how I overcame them. I particularly liked the part in my dreams when I gave myself a standing ovation." Humorist Art Buchwald, 46, was telling it like it had been to the sesquicentennial brunch of New York's Jewish Child Care Association. His fantasy that he was really a Rothschild who had been kidnaped by gypsies didn't quite come true, but as a columnist for the Paris Herald Tribune, "I lived it up with the international set, sailed on Onassis...
...start drinking before breakfast. I used to put away more than Dean Martin spills." ··· It was not radical chic but radical chuck in San Francisco when partisans of the newborn United Prisoners Union (national membership about 400) turned out to publicize their cause with a brunch of prison food. The "isolation loaf," made from a Department of Corrections recipe for prisoners in solitary, was pronounced revolting by the "name" guests. "A cross between cat food and dog food," said Writer Jessica Mitford. But some of the freeloaders seemed to think it wasn't bad. One fellow...
...could almost imagine the appropriate fade-ins and outs when my mother spoke so enthusiastically of serving Sunday brunch at the local USO, of the constant stream of boys that could be met on the endless series of trains she traveled between Boston, New York and Maine, of the year she spent in Washington-she tells of that too-haltingly translating Rumanian for some hastily assembled war office into a coded English she understood even less...
Yesterday morning, a leisurely registration preceded cocktails and brunch. Charles W. Eliot '20, grandson of Harvard's President Eliot, talked in the afternoon about the physical lay-out of the University. John H. Finley '25 spoke on academic developments at Harvard. Last night the alumni assembled at the Business School's Kresge Hall for cocktails and dinner...