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...Down at Home. But it is as hostesses, often to as many as 40 guests at as many as three sittings a week, that they are most practiced and most properly celebrated. Skilled in every facet of party giving, from the arrangement of flowers to the decision (reluctant but mandatory) to hire an extra couple to take coats and pass drinks, they have the energy to perform a well-worn role as if it were the choice part -in a first-run play, the ingenuity to plan a guest list with an eye toward a lively, varied pattern (putting banker...
...belabor motherlove and fireside further. Let me turn to the most revealing facet of your article, one not directly connected with the Radcliffe rejection of family life, which you so justifiably abhor. You worry about the pernicious effects of this attitude and its self-perpetuating nature upon young women. Yet in your very sketch of that "magic solution--each woman's recognition of and respect for that graciousness which can adorn her unique role as housewife," is manifested a positively terrifying distortion as damnable as any "Madison Avenue glorification of domestic details." Methinks you have cerebralized too much...
...like everything before the twentieth century--is popularly believed to have been a cut-and-dried affair, a simple matter of momentous decisions and memorable epigrams. The Boston Tea Party demonstrates, in plentiful detail, how perplexingly "modern" the world had become 200 years ago. This excellent narrative explores every facet of the highly complicated events which moved the British colonies toward independence from 1767 to 1774. Harvard has all the more reason to welcome it because the author, Benjamin Labaree, now Dean of Williams College, was once Senior Tutor of Winthrop House...
...apathy or coolness toward both candidates. The presidential vote broke all records. The magnitude of the President's conquest also swept many other Democrats, such as Governor Otto Kerner in Illinois and, most notably, Senate Candidate Robert Kennedy in New York, to victory. Yet perhaps the most fascinating facet of the election was the amazing amount of ticket splitting, as voters chose L.B.J.-and then skipped down the ballot to vote for deserving Republican candidates (see The Senate and The Governors stories). In the end-with the possible exception of salvaging his home state of Ari-zona-all that...
...Rolleston Jr. proceeded to lecture the Justices: "The argument that this law was passed to relieve a burden on interstate commerce is so much hogwash. It was intended to regulate the acts of individuals." If the commerce clause can be stretched that far, declared Rolleston, "Congress can regulate every facet of life...