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...dichotomy, however, runs much 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...
DuBois got his first taste of the barriers that existed for blacks in America when he attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The experience of Jim Crow laws--being forced to ride in segregated transportation, eat in separate dining facilities, denied the right to vote--left DuBois with a sense of the "absolute division of the universe into black and white...
...them, bearing with him as he became confused and forgetful, cleaning up after him as he lost control of his bodily functions. In his lucid moments, the proud 81-year-old Tugend knew what was happening to him. One day he took out his false teeth and refused to eat any more. He had decided to die, and no one-not his doctor, not his family-could do anything to change that. His children and grandchildren cared for him with anguished tenderness until death claimed him three weeks later...
...stuck with the late news, the Star Spangled Banner and then the snow for the rest of the night. I went down the street to a combination Deli/Sub-shop/Bar-and-Grille, but there wasn't anybody upstairs so I went downstairs to the bar and asked if I could get something to eat. The bartender said everything was closed, even though somebody just got a drink from him. So I went back upstairs and took a sixpack of Pepsi from behind the counter. I hid it in the bushes, went past about five honky marriage chapels and brought some food...
...become so convincing an advocate that this month, at a three-day conference in Princeton, 100 scientists, engineers, international lawyers and social scientists agreed that space colonization is not only possible but eminently feasible. They even discussed such basic questions as what kind of meat the colonists will eat (the conferees were told that rabbits, chickens and pigs would be easier to raise in space than cattle) and what types of legal and social structures might be set up in their extraterrestrial world...