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...Lowell House was "significantly homosexual and History and Lit." Eliot House, as Brody remembers it, was the home of the "white shoes," which are roughly the equivalent of today's Lacoste T-shirts. He always felt Eliot was a place in which he didn't quite belong, finding the cocktail parties and dinners pretentious, the attempt "to inculcate gentlemanly values" in Eliot residents false and the quasi-opulent living rather ridiculous. But he remembers rationalizing "they offered us a suite with five private rooms and a living room for $95 each a semester. So we took...
...That first shot of Scotch or bourbon-consumed, perhaps, during a surreptitious afternoon raid on Dad's liquor cabinet-tasted invariably like oil, or worse. For those who could not acquire the taste for the hard stuff, the answer was abstinence, beer or some sort of cocktail. Today, many liquor companies are gambling that there is a new category of American-those weaned on Tootsie Rolls, malts and Life Savers -who have been panting for something else: a souped-up soft drink...
Memories they'll never be able to forget. Something to talk about at cocktail parties. Interesting scars, and fun diseases other kids will envy...
Your article "The Constant Quest for Safety" stated that one recommendation of an FAA panel to improve cabin safety is "giving crews better training for emergencies" and "making sure that flight attendants man the exit doors during a landing instead of frantically collecting cocktail glasses...
East West Journal's chief distinction from the usual self-abnegating counter-cultural junk we are expected to wallow water-hoggishly in is its slick packaging. Nothing kills one of those infamous Cambridge cocktail parties faster than a too-complete fatalism. But this magazine starting with a litany of all the terrible things wrong with the world quickly moves on to ice-breaking tidbits like the sayings of a Japanese zen master or a Bucky-Fuller-talking -blues-in-gobbledlygook or the parallels between our war on cancer and Vietnam, "our nation's last great effort in futility...