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...more aesthetically inclined will find Yialantzi Dolma (called Dolma by its friends) the order of the night. Cultivating a taste for the dish is advised, since its essence is the subtle mingling of rice, olive oil, and the flavor of its grape leaf wrapping. Naturally, the renewned Greek salad can serve as a first course. Its foundation is assorted lettuce, chickory, and escerole, but the taste is in the dressing. To a French base, the Athens adds olives oil, vinegar, and rigone, sprinkles with imported Greek Feta cheese, and tops with a garnishing of tomatoes, anchovies, and Greek black Oliver...
...picked up a tiny marmoset monkey. On the train from New York, in the dining car, I had him inside my coat. And the waiter, who had just set a fruit salad on the table, suddenly saw a long hairy arm reach out from my chest and clutch a grape. He gaped in horror and almost upset somebody else's dinner. . . At college, he developed a taste for beer and would sit on top of a can, reach down the opening with his arm, and after three handfuls of beer he was falling all over the place...
...Peasant." Though Stalin loves to quiz his associates on Marx and party history, he distrusts intellectuals, says Author Svanidze. Speaking to one about his grape orchard in the Caucasus, Stalin said: "That orchard was watered with my sweat! You can't understand that, you intellectual anarchist! I'm a peasant by birth . . . and a gardener and wine grower on top of that. It's a race apart. It's the best race to run a country...
...Orpheum Theater to drink in vaudeville performances by Blossom Seeley, De Wolf Hopper, Eva Tanguay, Harry Lauder and other such glamorous figures. She "dressed up" in adult finery at every opportunity. Boys swarmed around the Doud house, and Mamie fed 'them cookies and Welch's grape juice, and allowed them to play at a pool table in a basement game room; as she grew older, they took her dancing . . . and dancing . . . and dancing...
What is the point of such a ruling--is there anything to justify its irritating restrictions? If the grape-vine serves us well, the objection to women in the House during afternoons is the same tired horse that has carried countless messages of rejection before, the doctrine of protection--protection, in this case, from one's roommates, House mates, and oneself. Apparently, the Administrative Board is concerned with the all-Harvard House ideal, where students who wish to study, meditate, palaver, or what have you are free from feminine interruptions. Between for and seven, the argument goes, it's time...