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...padded about country-club terraces in madras shorts, smiled for the family photographers, and read comics instead of classics. Their mother came from an old-line Roman Catholic family (their father converted before his marriage), and they both attended strict Catholic schools, took their religion seriously. They seemed perfect "convent girls...
...Dream? The streets were full of happy drunks, but even those who had not touched a drop seemed high?gripped by a crisis-born spirit of camaraderie and exhilaration. In Brooklyn, a meat market donated a whole pig to a neighboring convent, thus providing everybody for blocks around with a snack of roast pork. Manhattan's Four Seasons Restaurant, where prices are rarely mentioned because so few would believe them, dispensed soup free of charge; at "21," where the only drink on the house is water, they passed out steak sandwiches and free libations without limit...
...classes (no more than 20), imaginative teaching and tough competition. Brearley selects its girls for their academic promise rather than social prominence, approaches the excellence of such a boarding school for boys as Andover. Buckley, which has attracted generations of Roosevelts, has pioneered a new elementary reading program. The Convent of the Sacred Heart requires its first-graders to study French, memorize such poems as Blake's "Little Lamb, who made thee?", sends its older girls out on social work one afternoon weekly. Fieldston's 660 kids enjoy an 18-acre campus in the Bronx, a curriculum strong...
...price of private schooling comes high. Tuition runs up to $900 a year at the Roman Catholic Convent of the Sacred Heart, attended by Caroline Kennedy and housed in the Fifth Avenue palace built by Banker Otto Kahn. Brearley, academically the top school for girls, charges up to $1,650. Then, of course, there are extras: at Hewitt, riding lessons in Central Park cost $165 a year. The price of midmorning orange juice is $15 a year at Saint David's, where the sons of Negro Jazz Pianist Billy Taylor Jr. and Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., learn italic...
...boast only half a dozen festivals; today there are some 200. Half ritual and half romp, they are held in medieval barns and torchlighted courtyards, up on cliffs overlooking the sea, down in leafy glens, in castles and cathedrals, on a floating stage and in the cloisters of a convent. Programs range from intimate chamber-music sessions over brandy to razzle-dazzle variety shows, from folk music and jazz to carillon recitals...