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...world press up and down the narrow streets to interview job hopefuls, then on to the nearest motels in Americus (ten miles away) for sparse rest and food. The food came, famously, from the now legendary Faye's Bar-B-Q Villa-a good steak served in the Formica rooms of a "double-wide mobile home" parked in a mud lot behind a filling station near some rotting tourist cabins...
Beyond the bickering over cost and blame stands a light and airy dining hall with a stage at one end filled with white formica table tops and chairs. "I think it's sensational," Shirley K. Broner, assistant to the Master for South House, says. To inaugurate the addition for social purposes, South House plans to hold a Quadrangle Quadrille on September 30. The University, it seems, has succeeded in enhancing the quality of life at South House, but it may well have mistreated the minority contractor responsible for that improvement. It remains to be seen if the Cruz Construction Company...
Some builders achieve savings by eliminating many luxuries home buyers have taken for granted: picture windows, sliding glass doors, cathedral ceilings and, frequently, appliances. Some developers build the houses in clusters, saving on labor costs as well as land. They also economize by using aluminum or formica siding, and leaving the lot bare...
Finally the crowd flowed out the way it had come in, past the formica tables where British guards had searched all parcels for bombs, not far from the awesome portraits that chronicle the ministers and ambassadors from the United States of America to the Court of Saint James, from the time of revolution to the time of the present, from John Adams to Elliot Richardson...
...saddled with the albatross of American self-condemnation, the self-flagellating despair of bourgeois life has always been a puzzle. For three decades, we in the rest of the world have watched American movies with mouth-dripping envy, fantasizing about the day when we too will have those shiny Formica kitchens, the big cars with lots of chrome, blinking computers everywhere, Las Vegas, Gary Cooper. It seemed like paradise, but good old Richard Cory just went and shot himself. In spite of its inane aspects, the recent flood of nostalgia is a healthy rehabilitation of national symbols, a growing...