Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Smith to Keynes, from Mill to Marx. It would draw upon the Kress Library, which is one of the best collections of historical manuscripts dealing with business before 1848, and it should look at the development of the corporation from the Middle Ages. It could even draw on guest lectures from a few of the critics on this side of the river, and might profitably include a look at literary works concerning business, perhaps even The Merchant of Venice and Death of a Salesman. Obviously, this course would be larger in scope than either the existing half-course (unrequired...
...able to discuss not only the classic poets but also atomic energy, a subject now taught at the geisha academy. Her dancing should be at least as up-to-date as the mambo and the cha-cha-cha. ("Very handy when you're saddled with an obnoxious guest whom you don't like touching," said one geisha of the mambo...
...manners have changed to some extent, the geisha's true function has not. In essence, it is to be all that a wife should be if she didn't have to wash the dishes, bear the babies, clean the house and grow old and tiresome. To casual guests at a party or to the patron she hopes will one day claim her permanently, the geisha must be tireless and fascinating, solicitous and flattering, soothing and delightful, ready to make conversation, play a game or listen to pompous discourse at the whim of her customer. "A good geisha," said...
When the last guest had departed at 1:30. and the house had become silent, the hostess followed her regular custom. Recalls her personal maid of 20 years: "This was the time she loved best. She would walk around and look at everything again. She used to say: 'It's a lovely house for a party...
Concernmaster During most of the season Richard Burgin, 64, sits unobtrusively at the violin section's first desk of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as he has for the past 36 years. At the end of a performance the conductor or guest soloist will shake his hand; if the guest happens to be someone as impulsive as Leonard Bernstein, he may even kiss his cheeks. For the rest, the concertmaster's job is done out of the public view, preparing the violins for the effects the conductor wants, marking the bowings, in general setting the tone of the orchestra...