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...time you pass Elsie's, notice the window of Sak's Fifth Avenue next door filled with things for women. In its new Boutique, Sak's is showing "a world of witty fashions" selected in New York. There are tailored wool skirts in solids and tweeds, mohair and bulky knit sweaters and proportioned wool slacks. Sensible, stylish and comfortable all at once is Sak's grey flannel wraparound skirt sporting brown suede pockets. If your size is not on hand, Sak's will gladly order it for you from New York immediately...
Hidden under the Treadway Motel is Moda Boutique, an import shop carrying Milanese knit suits (which range in price from $25 to $150) and outfits from Capri, Israel and Austria. The shop carries a fine assortment of basic lingerie, too. One of its specialities is blouses, made to your measurements in four days from Italian silk scarves you select yourself...
...Seesaw. Gittel Moscowitz is a slob. Also a kook. Number one, she lives in the Village and looks it. She is 29 but she still wears ballet flats, black tights and bulky knits, and her hair is like something she maybe found under a bed. Add to which she is having her second ulcer and living on cottage cheese, as everybody can plainly see from the mess on the front of her bulky knit. But Gittel has a career. She is known as Gittel Mosca on the stage-of the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. Gittel has push. For years she picked...
...Greater Nightmare. He concludes from his investigation that The Thing, as William Cobbett called the 19th century Establishment, is no longer a cozy, close-knit power elite; it has fragmented into "a cluster of interlocking circles, touching others only at one edge; they are not a single Establishment but a ring of Establishments." By contrast with the Victorians, Britain's present-day Pooh-Bahs do not aspire to know "what is best for the people," or conspire to run the country, from whose overall interests they are increasingly insulated. "This." argues Sampson "surely is the greater nightmare...
Some may fear that the elimination of sponsors will destroy the home-like atmosphere of the Houses. They see the dining hall as a focus for developing House spirit, and they would view unsponsored diners from the outside as an intrusion, a disrupting, alien influence in a tightly knit group of friends. It is a pity that this vision of the Houses squares so poorly with reality. Four hundred undergraduate men hardly constitute a family, even if they do happen to take their meals at Leverett House. New faces from other Houses and other Harvard institutions should...