Word: companioner
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Bernays thrives upon the constant flood of visitors to his white clapboard mansion on Lowell Street in Cambridge. Always a gathering place for diverse individuals, the Bernays home is like a laboratory for experimentation in the theory of democratic pluralism. Bernays and his "twenty-four hour a day companion in married life," the late Doris Fleischman, would summon at once "a union head, a colonel in the army, the editor of a left-to-center paper and an artist." "Conformity is a sin," according to Bernays, "even at parties...
...suffered the worst defeat in its history only a year ago, when Schmidt's coalition trounced the conservative Minister-President of Bavaria, Franz Josef Strauss, 53.5% to 44.5%, in the national elections, winning 271 seats in the Bundestag, against a total of 226 for the C.D.U. and its companion Christian Social Union...
...this quite remarkable woman divides her free time between her townhouse in Manhattan's exclusive Turtle Bay and the home she shares with her younger brother and her secretary-companion in Fenwick, Conn., on Long Island Sound. Vigorous as ever, she regularly bikes, swims, plays a fiercely competitive game of tennis. She talks easily about her life and her work. The Hepburn mind still functions dexterously. The odd detail may elude her, but her memory is radiant and rich with the large patterns of life, its experience and meaning, its jokes and ironies. And all of it falls into Yankee...
...lane known to young couples as Hookman's Road. One night, a teen-age boy and girl were parked there when they heard over the car radio that a killer with a hook for a hand was on the loose. The girl became frightened and demanded that her companion drive her home. Angry, and perhaps a bit uneasy himself, he roared off abruptly. When they arrived at her house, he went around the car to open her door. Dangling from the handle was a bloody hook...
...dark suits are de rigueur and a typical menu features artichoke hearts with baby shrimp, stuffed onions and chocolate mousse. For those who are not used to using three goblets, three forks and three spoons. Mitchell can offer practical advice: "Don't worry about waiting." Mitchell tells one dinner companion who hesitates over cream of celery soup as a servant serves the other guests, "Julia Child was here last week and she said it's okay to go ahead...