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...Gramercy Park. They love the theater, political confabs with friends, and long evenings at home with books and records. The most intensely pursued family interest is baseball. During the 1948 Dewey campaign, Brownell and Harold Talbott (now Secretary of the Air Force) rented a box at Yankee Stadium to entertain visiting politicos. They kept the box from then on. Mrs. Brownell, a convert to baseball, attended 60 games the first year, now knows the averages of all the leading players. In Washington, the Brownells plan to root for the Senators-when the Yankees are not in town...
Israel. "We should announce to the Israelis that they cannot count upon our continued financial support unless they . . . entertain and implement some reasonable compromise with the Arabs, including respect for the decisions of the United Nations...
...reality, in itself, should be merely a tool of drama, just as the playwright, if he is an artist, must also be a good technician. The technician like Mr. Inge, who use his talent to entertain, shock, or emotionally mangle his audience, leaving it nothing more than a momentary dramatic experience, is indulging in literary exercise--little more. Mr. Inge clearly has the tools; now, he needs a new idea...
...Band will again participate in the annual Radcliffe "Drumbeats and Song" at Sanders Theatre on March 6. Radcliffe's Drumbeats society will present its usual original musical, and the Band will entertain during the other half of the program...
Presumably, these losses would be a sacrifice to the miniscule number who study while others entertain. Presumably, too, they would be a sacrifice to the principle of Social Pattern, dear to the hearts of prep-school administrators. In any case, this work represents as logical a bit of reasoning as belief in Santa Claus...