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LUNCHEON OR LUNCH BUT NOT BRUNCH! advised Emily Post. It took her only ten lines to dismiss the custom as a "single-headed, double-bodied deformity 'standees' of at a lunch language" that counter but not "suggests the beauty of hospitable living." That was in the 1950 edition of Etiquette. The current edition takes a different view of brunch, calls it "a pleasant sort of informal, even casual entertaining," offers tips on how to dress and what to serve. Moving with the times, the post-Post posture simply acknowledges that going out to Sunday brunch with family...
...churchgoers after the 11 a.m. service. Increasingly, even for the clergy, the scene for brunch is shifting from the home to the neighborhood pub or midtown restaurant. The brunch bunch at Manhattan's Delmonico's has increased 150% in the three years since the hotel instituted the custom. Because it is located in the middle of the Rockefeller Center office complex, Irish-style Charley O's ought logically to be deserted on Sunday; instead, as many as 230 people swarm in for brunch-and on St. Patrick's Day, the crowd included Bobby and Ethel...
...modified over the centuries, by such sages as Maimonides and Joseph Karo, in order to adapt the written Talmud to the requirements of everyday life. The Conservative branch of Judaism considers Halakah of divine origin but believes in adapting it to the times by a less restrictive interpretation of custom. The Reform Jews go considerably farther, believe that it is the spirit rather than the letter of the law that matters and argue briskly that Halakah has no binding authority...
...psych turns up everywhere in the news. Lyndon Johnson's hostile or suspicious behavior is ascribed to his "regional inferiority complex." Russia's inflexibility is attributed to the custom of binding newborn babies tight in swaddling clothes. Charles Whitman's shooting people from the clock tower of the Texas campus is diagnosed as a case of sexual overcompensation (on a phallic tower with a phallic rifle). Stanford Associate English Professor Bruce Franklin notes that "our basic method of fighting in Viet Nam is anal-sadistic. A man in an airplane is in a nonorganic environment, symbolically defecating...
...success of his study depends on the group being accepted as part of the tribe. To do this they will spend six months wandering across the semi-desert plains of Nigeria with a band of fifteen to twenty Fulani. They will eat Fulani food, dress according to tribal custom, and probably even herd sheep...