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Maybe you've already paid for HSA linens, a yearbook and a freshman register, your Class ring and the orchestra's concert series. But if you haven't, be forewarned: Just because it's Harvard doesn't mean it's good. The linen service is okay if you are the type who sends laundry home--but remember that you have to pick up your linens at a particular time or place each week or else you're out of luck. If you're doing your own laundry, why not just do linens, too, and save the money...
Imagine dinner at a grand luxe restaurant. The satiny table linen is blindingly white, the chinaware and Baccarat crystal positively glisten, the maitre d' and waiters are impeccably dressed. The diners sit down, admire the pleasing surroundings, and then comes the piéce de résistance: a greasy hamburger, accompanied by limp French fries and a fizzy concoction dosed with cyclamates. That, roughly, was what it was like at an eagerly anticipated dance event: the gala opening last week of the revitalized Harkness Ballet at the palatial new Harkness Theater near Manhattan's Lincoln Center...
...leaf through the pages of magazines like Réalties or Connaissance des Arts without experiencing a touch of nausea: this is what it has come down to, a ragout of flattering consumer objects floating in a buttery sauce of vicarious chic-Mercedes-Benzes and Daum crystal, Porthault linen and Andy Warhols, Tiepolo drawings and onyx washstands, Dubuffets and silver-garnished narwhal horns...
...table to life. "I need company," she says. "Not many at a time, though. Three or four, or half a dozen at most. Nowadays, two tables of ten represent a real gala." In the duke's day it was nothing for 40 to sit down to crested linen and crystal, to incomparable wine and food. "We usually had music. The duke loved to dance and to take a turn at the drums. But I don't dance any more, nor do my friends. We've suddenly become...
Education was always stressed in her family, Mayman said. Neither of her parents went to college, and both emphasized the value of books and of experiences. Mayman describes her father, who died when she was 10 years old, as a "book-oriented, dashing Brazilian who wore white linen suits and silk shirts and who played polo." Her mother is "bohemian in a funny way," and has taught fencing and ballet. "My parents met while they were horseback riding, and were engaged in a week," Mayman said...