Word: cafeteria
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...with addicts-spectators got an astonishing picture of a strange new city: New York as it appears to a "junkie." It is a city where "pushers" peddle their wares almost as casually as sidewalk balloon vendors, where children sniff heroin even in classrooms, where an innocent-looking drugstore or cafeteria may be an addicts' hangout...
...famed China Doll nightclub off Broadway was a good spot: "Two or three peddlers hang around there . . . on a quiet basis." So was Hanson's drugstore at 51st Street and Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan; so was the Garden Cafeteria across from Madison Square Garden. "You just walk in ... get a cup of coffee . . . put your money down, pick up the drugs and leave . . ." In a B-G Coffee Shop ". . . it's more of a high-class type of addict ... Cocaine buyers hang around there...
...Gromyko, Malik had ranted and been answered by the champions of the free world, a rearguard of U.N. staffers stuffed their briefcases with forgotten oddments. War workers from the Sperry Gyroscope Co. (which is taking over the whole of its buildings for expanded war production) were crowding the huge cafeteria where Foreign Ministers, stenographers and visiting movie stars had stood in patient lines for lunch. Two U.N. staffers sat for a moment listening to the sound of the workers' talk; all in English, it rang strangely out of place in the room that had once echoed to the babel...
...Lavish Cafeteria. Against a "nearer background," Van Dusen follows the subsequent course of education in the U.S. Originally, he points out, "the church was the parent and sponsor of education. And religion was the keystone of the educational arch." But as the nation and its knowledge expanded, so did education. Courses and colleges multiplied, and education more and more became afflicted with the curse of specialization ("so stunting to large-mindedness, so fatal to comprehension of the whole truth, that is, the real truth"). And with specialization came secularization...
...longer is religion the keystone of the educational arch, but rather one stone among many . . . Our educational system has lost what had been its principle of coherence and its instrument of cohesion . . . The contemporary university curriculum reminds one of nothing so much as a lavish cafeteria, where unnumbered tasty intellectual delicacies are strung along a moving belt for individual selection without benefit of dietary advice or caloric balance...