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...every right to ask. All the chairs that were supposed to be in the 15th floor lounge of William James were out in the hall. All the tables (except the bar) were turned upside down. Instead of doing typical cocktail hour things, people were sitting on the carpet with their shoes off, laughing, drinking wine, eating bread, and beating out rhythms on upturned trash cans...
Yesterday's coup was pulled off by a few graduate students who were unhappy with the traditional cocktail party atmosphere. John Newmeyer, a sixth-year graduate student in Social Psychology, and one of the leaders of the coup, termed it a success. "This is only the first time." he said, "and people are a bit uneasy about sitting down. They've never done it before, you know...
...before a Senate subcommittee studying drug abuse, the aging (67) but very much tuned-in anthropologist asserted that marijuana is less toxic than tobacco and milder than booze. What is harmful, she said, is the law banning the drug. As she put it: "There is the adult with a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette in the other telling the child. 'You cannot.' " The answer, Dr. Mead told reporters after the hearing, is to legalize marijuana for anyone over...
Despite dialogue from today's cocktail parties and themes from tomorrow's headlines, too many contemporary authors still make convention do the work of invention. They are rewriting the 19th century novel without meaning to. In The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles rewrites the 19th century novel and means every word of it. But his is a resourceful and penetrating talent at work on that archaic form. The result is more truly inventive and contemporary than a whole shelf of campus comings-of-age or suburban wife-swapping sagas...
PEERING at the world from behind gold-rimmed glasses and beneath a thatch of gray hair, Arthur Burns is a model of the modern professor in Government. He is seldom found on the Washington cocktail circuit, and perhaps with some reason. "Being at a dinner with Burns is like being back in the high school classroom," says an acquaintance. His manner is relentlessly professorial; even his doodlings while he talks on the telephone are architecturally precise. But he occasionally shows a dry wit; he has been heard to speak of one politician as "a gentleman and a demagogue...