Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope does not smoke, drinks wine only occasionally, and cares nothing for food, dress, or social distinctions. Says a Catholic editor in Cracow: "He will eat anything that's put in front of him." Another friend adds in jest: "If the Italians knew about his taste in wines, they would never have agreed to have him as Pope." Father Mieczyslaw Malinski, a former classmate of the new Pope's and a longtime friend, notes that "he is a man without pretensions. His driver told me: 'I feel ashamed of the Cardinal. He is always so shabbily dressed. Look...
...Collection (Oct. 25, PBS, 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Not terribly much happens during this hour-long play by Harold Pinter. Phones ring at odd times of night. A London boutique owner unexpectedly drops in on a dress designer who lives in a baroque town house down the road. Two men almost stage a duel with delicate cheese knives. A husband fears that his wife may have had an affair in a hotel room in Leeds. Not much happens during The Collection, but by the time the play is over at least three lives have been shattered. That's the wonder...
...administrators neither defend nor criticize final clubs. Cleveland Amory wrote that Harvard officials at the time considered the clubs "a necessary evil," from which much of the University's wealth was drawn. One of Amory's friends wondered why it was necessary to have a group of men who "dress alike, look alike, walk alike, talk alike, and, if pressed, think alike...
What's disturbing is not that people like to dress fancy and have a good time--even children enjoy playing house and wearing crowns. It is that the ideologies of these liberal Kennedys, Galbraiths, student politicos and journalists stand in bleak contrast to their elitist lifestyles and pretensions. How will Americans view a lavish black-tie affair to open a school of public service...
WHILE IT IS TRUE that any University affair featuring Kennedys, senators and free liquor has to be limited, the K-School went overboard. Sen. John C. Culver '54 (D-Iowa) seemed surprised by the dress requirement at the mixer--he ran out to rent a tuxedo in Porter Square...