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Even more chilling is their attempt to muster support from middle Americans and to polarize the community by blaming the liberal Brattle St. cocktail circuit for all their troubles in much the same manner Richard Nixon blames the press for Watergate. The story has been put out that middle-class working people in Cambridge want the library, but a few snobs in the well-to-do section of Neighborhood Ten are trying to protect themselves from contact with middle-class tourists. They fail to mention, of course, the fears generated in the heavily black Riverside community on the other side...
Danschisch remembers how easy it is to look the other way. "I did it," he says. "I put the blinders on." Why did he change? "I used to ignore the stories. But when the headlines hit-COP ARRESTED-it bothered me. I would go to cocktail parties and mumble, 'I work for the city' when people asked what I did for a living. Maybe it was the cocktail parties that made me change. I don't know." Now maybe it will be his students who help the force to change...
Even more lovely to the Genevan's tastes, the celebrants were escapees from those guardians of civilization and cocktail conversation, the eight Ivy League colleges...
...angry, hungry or happy,' he declared at the outset of our interview. So it was with extreme deliberation that he deftly explained the moves with which he has perpetuated his power and the need, as he sees it, to save his country from 'a cocktail of anarchy.' " Excerpts from the interview...
...their formal entertaining, the Kissingers have, after the White House, the most elegant suite in the capital-the State Department's Madison Room, which is furnished with American antiques. But vast embassy receptions and cocktail parties are not really Nancy's style. "I'd fall over backwards if she became the hostess with the mostes' " said one old friend. Nancy prefers small dinners with six to eight informed, articulate friends. She smokes a lot but drinks little. Though she does not fuss over gourmet food, she is a competent cook. Not that she spent much time...