Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Houses are using the money largely to attract "big name" visitors to their guest suites. But, to import a celebrity is expensive (he receives transportation costs plus a generous "honorarium," seldom refused). As Master Perkins explained, a House can easily spend 15 per cent of its yearly allowance on a single short-term visitor. Furthermore, celebrities are busy men, usually unable to remain in Cambridge more than a few days. Contact with students may be limited to shaking hands, trading pleasantries over sherry glasses, and a speech. It is never enlightening to hear a man--however great--repeat what...
...other hand, a certain type of House guest, though not initially so appealing, has proved highly desirable. Master Brower calls them "informal teachers"--people in all fields who thrive on close contact with students, and who can stay in the House longer than seventy-two hours...
...Square and the Street Called Straight. Students shuffling under the eucalyptus leafed arches chanted in unison: "Neither internationalism nor Communism but Arab nationalism." At the municipal stadium a festive crowd roared as desert riders staged a camel race. Thus, as their hero arrived from Cairo this week with his guest and fellow neutralist, Tito of Yugoslavia, the people of Nasser's northern province (pop. 4,000,000) began celebrating the first anniversary of the merger of their country with Egypt in the United Arab Republic...
...hotels helped the guests feel at home. At the top resorts, visitors with a yearning for a kosher dinner could get it-flown in frozen from Lou Siegel's Restaurant in Manhattan. At the brassy Arawak Hotel in Jamaica, the planned games included both generations. While the children put on free "calypso" shirts and went for a donkey ride, the parents bet on crabs that had been painted red or blue and goaded into a sidewise race. In tonier circles, no help from the management was needed. The cafe society crowd at Montego's Round Hill...
...Murrow, the show went off the air. Soon afterward, Murrow delivered his celebrated Chicago speech charging TV with "decadence and escapism."Reporter-Entertainer Murrow was stripped down to the chitchat of TV's Person to Person and Small World, a daily radio news report and an occasional guest shot as a big-name narrator. Moreover, Ed Murrow got into deep water with his scarcely responsible The Business of Sex (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.). Last week Ed Murrow indulged in a little escapism of his own, announced he would take a year's leave of absence from...