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...been on one train from Warsaw to West Germany, our theatre luggage on another which hadn't arrived. No way to get information from railway authorities in East Berlin. A day passed. Consulted I Ching. Oracle said: Don't worry; relax and feast. While we were stuffing ourselves, news came that our trunks had just arrived...
...tree. We're gonna give you eight--yes, count'em, eight--different gifts, one for each day of our holiday." It didn't help, of course, that my parents were not big gift-givers. The only thing I remember getting for Chanukah was a picture book about the Feast of Lights, as it was called. I read the book at least eight times, but somehow-it didn't quite do the trick...
...some nervous transatlantic phone calls from Mother, Caroline Kennedy, an art student at Sotheby's, may be adopting a lower profile. For her 18th birthday last week, young Caroline canceled plans for a big London bash and joined a few friends at a Berkeley Square club. The birthday feast: a hamburger and a glass of wine...
Toynbee's work attracted relatively little attention and less praise when it first appeared. Reviewing the first three volumes in 1935, the Journal of Modern History sniffed: "A Gargantuan feast, shall we say? Or is it hash and not chopped up fine enough at that?" In 1947. however, in the postwar search for international understanding, Toynbee suddenly experienced the truth of the Victor Hugo remark about an idea whose time has come. A one-volume abridgment of the first six books of the study sold a phenomenal quarter of a million copies. (An abridgment of Vols...
...victims of "regression at the worst, status quo government at the best." Non-incumbent Mary Ann Preusser (CC '75) said she sees the recent changes in the city as only indications of what could come. "We've had the hors d'oeuvres before what could be a feast," she said...