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...deeper than sports attendance. Randall is one of what he calls six stalwarts who eat lunch regularly at the Harvard Club's last vestige of an address, a small suite of rooms in the Princeton Club. It is both a source of embarassment to the traditionalists to have to dine in an Ivy rival's club and a constant reminder that the club should augment its $15,000 endowment and take up residence in its own clubhouse where Harvard gentlemen can sneak a smoke and a quick drink between court cases and bank transactions. But the recent grads, including most...
...Carlisi). The Middle of the World loses its promised dialectical interweaving of the social with the personal, collapsing into a solipsistic world of passion and despair. The turning point, both in Paul's fortunes as well as the potential of the film, occurs one evening when Paul and Adriana dine in a local restaurant named appropriately enough, the Middle of the World. The name, Paul tells his desire, derives from the position of the town on the water line dividing Europe in half. North of the watershed, he says, all rivers flow into the North Sea; south of the divide...
Maybe the real problem lies with complaints like Mansfield's--students dress funny; they talk funny. I would like to offer that (1) when I go to dine at the Faculty Club I'll put on a jacket and tie; Dr. Mansfield at a House could take his off; (2) a professor with an English vocabulary of one hundred thousand words (I'm guessing) could bestir himself to learn ten or twenty more, "vogue" as they...
...huge steel industry that will exploit its iron ore and great sources of hydroelectric power. Deep in the backlands on the Orinoco River, more than 200,000 people have already clustered in the government run, iron-and-steel community of Ciudad Guayana, where international businessmen come to swing deals, dine on fine French food and gaze upon spectacular waterfalls. Pérez aims to raise steel output from last year's 784,000 metric tons to 5 million tons by 1978, and to 15 million by 1985. If those hugely ambitious goals are met, Venezuela will have a multibillion...
...Gold Coast, home for those members of high society who could afford it, was exclusive indeed. Its residents generally had their own maids or butlers and in some cases brought their own cooks--if they chose not to dine at a final club...