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...everything down in front of a gate that said something such as: "Enter To Grow in Wisdom." A fellow approached and smiled. He wore dark-gray trousers, a tweed jacket, a button-down shirt and a striped...
...wear a jacket and a tie to eat beneath the moose and elk mounted on the paneled walls of the Harvard Union. One day at lunch, I chatted with a decent fellow, who later that day in the Yard, did not acknowledge my greeting. People didn't do that in Elizabeth...
There are those who disdain such extravagance and the formality that goes with it. "Informal" dress at meals means jacket and tie; "formal" signals a tuxedo, or at least a dark business suit. At these prices, the QE2 tends to attract a certain class of traveler--the kind who, in an earlier era, coined the word posh (port out, starboard home), the preferred, indeed socially obligatory, cabin location for the well-heeled sailing out of London. But for the men and women who choose to sail the QE2, it just wouldn't be the same without that touch of class...
...Talk of Many Things" comes with dust jacket blurbs from, among others, George McGovern and John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith, Buckley's old pal and ideological nemesis, helps take some of the partisanship out of the proceedings by calling the book "sheer delight from humor and prose, whatever the political faith." I also am a friend of Buckley's, and I confess to viewing him through the lens of an immense affection...
...Walters has opened up considerably to the show's saucy format. In a discussion of older women's sex appeal, the hosts joke about Walters' making a sex video; she closes the segment saying, "I'm off to make my film!," shimmying and starting to strip off her pink jacket. This is surely a sign of the apocalypse. But she can still be a wet blanket, especially when it comes to trashing celebrities she might want to interview later. "I still have times, and they all know it," she says, "when I'll say, 'Oh, my God, I'll never...