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...Junior Fellows continue the old practice of lunching together twice a week (Tuesday and Friday) in the Society's rooms in Eliot House. On Monday evenings they dine with the Senior Fellows and a number of specially invited guests. Homans and Bailey have provided a description of one of these dinners...
Twelve Angry Men (Orion-Nova; United Artists). "And wretches hang," wrote Alexander Pope, "that jurymen may dine." The force of Pope's words came home to Television Playwright Reginald Rose when he served on a New York jury. In 1954, in a 50-minute playlet produced on CBS, he threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels...
...that the French would not allow them to organize a school for girls did he realize that nonroyal Moslem girls did not go to school, promptly promised, "I will make my daughter Aisha the missionary of feminine emancipation." During the wartime Casablanca Conference, President Franklin Roosevelt invited him to dine. It was the first time Morocco's Sultan had been allowed to meet any foreign head of state, and though he would not agree to declare war against Germany, he got from the meeting an increased sense of his own policical importance...
...using the telephone, handling money. With patient training, most of these youngsters may eventually find jobs. Some schools teach their girl students how to put on lipstick and dress attractively; boys learn how to call a girl for a date, and small groups, after careful instruction, venture out to dine in restaurants. For the "trainables," with IQs of 30 to 50, some of whom must be shown how to tie their shoes or turn on a light, the outlook is for slower progress; most must spend the rest of their days under guardianship, and work, if at all, in "sheltered...
...rajah's favorite, or as the girl in a sickle moon suspended high above the audience and tossing down garters and other pretty trinkets. But only at her first appearance, coming-with snow on her picture hat-into a restaurant filled with ghostly elegance, to dine alone, to struggle with asparagus and be rebuffed by corn, to clip a lobster's claws and dip gloved fingers in a finger bowl-only then does Lillie achieve a definitive grandeur de folie, or the Follies recapture the grandeur that was Rome...