Word: grilles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minority Report. Not only does Rice exhibit an astonishingly tin ear for dialogue; his autobiographical e frequently reads like a parody of all the memoirs ever written. "We had what is now known as a cookout, with Mrs. Roosevelt, in a bungalow apron toasting the frankfurters over a charcoal grill. When her son Elliott shouted 'Hey, Ma, we're all out of beer!' she replied sharply, 'You know there's always enough beer! Just look around for it!' It was a domestic scene that made one happy to be an American...
This distillation of the gentleman's club tradition is carved on a stone slab in the floor of New York City's spanking-new Princeton Club. But some old grads attending the dedication ceremonies last week were in for a shock. The words apply only to the grill. In nearly every other of the 140-rooms, women's troubling is welcomed with open arms. For this nine-story building on 43rd Street may well be the mold and model of the club of the future-the "family club...
...More Purdah. The main dining room is for ladies alone or ladies with men. Lone males are barred. They must eat in the strictly misogynist grill or the large Madison Room,* where movies may be shown or the rug rolled back for dancing. Suburban wives have quarters where they can shower and change, retool the hairdo, or snooze awhile before meeting their Princetonian husbands for an evening on the town. And there have even been rumors that the club's three airconditioned squash courts might be made available to female racqueteers in off hours...
...fall and winter, the House is composed of converted doubles intermixed with larger complexes. Master Finley has created a number of consolidated suites, usually consisting of a triple and deconverted double. In addition Eliot has one of the largest and most useful house libraries and contains its own grill...
Besides, Mather and Claverly residents use the common facilities of the Big House--its convivial grill, semi-detached library, photo dark room, music listening room, practice pianos, pool table, two recreation rooms, gymnasium, tool room, and art studio...