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This extravaganza comes courtesy of the highest House dues on campus, and very much in the tradition of old Master Heimert's cocktail parties, symbols of the extravagance, elegance and downright elitism that have marked Eliot as long as anyone can remember. Ah, those were the days. --Brian D. Ellison...
...other formerly familiar sights are more habitually associated with Eliot House, such as croquet on the lawn or house cocktail parties. "Tradition--if that's what a cocktail party constitutes, then those are traditions we have no problem perpetuating," Eliot Co-Master Stephen A. Mitchell...
Mitchell's predecessor, Alan E. Heimert '49, who retired last year after 23 years as master, was seen as the steward who retained the traditions of Old Harvard at Eliot House. Heimert's tenure was characterized by weekly cocktail hours and particularly indulgent celebrations at the Eliot Fete. When he retired along with Senior Tutor Donald Bacon, also a longtime fixture of Eliot life, many thought an era had ended...
...least, subtly set forth. The menaces lurking in the city he traverses are exaggerated. And the people who drive him over the edge are all racially or socially stereotypical, the broadly drawn "others" imagined by the uninformed middle class, quaking behind the walls of their gated communities, talking at cocktail parties about buying guns and insisting -- not entirely persuasively -- that they wouldn't be afraid to use them. To the degree that Falling Down encourages this mind-set, it is a dangerous and morally stupid movie...
...right, we've taken our licks. But this stuff is nothing more than talk show fodder and cocktail party froth. Remember, "It's the economy, stupid...