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...propose that chairs and small tables be placed on the balcony, and that students and faculty be allowed to bring picnic lunches, say, from noon until two o'clock. At other hours, the balcony would remain closed. Certainly, there would be some difficulties. Timid professors would object to students peering in at them through the floor-to-ceiling windows. (As a solution, we suggest the use of their floor-to-ceiling curtains...
...challenge the administration to look beyond these considerable but wholly solvable problems to a vision of the world's first undergraduate, urban, aerial, outdoor picnic ground. This is the kind of proposal that administrations generally pass off as "unrealistic" with an understanding, paternal smile. We hope, however, that this plan will not be ignored simply because it is unusual...
...People-to-People Fiesta is a miniature world's fair in itself-a bazaar with booths of more than 40 nations. Here foot-weary fairgoers can picnic, entertained by strolling musicians, craft demonstrations, and a peppy, swinging ballet about Manhattan staged by youngsters of the Police Athletic League...
Soon, at artists' get-togethers in Manhattan's Eighth Street Club, Rivers was maintaining, "History doesn't disgust me. Old masters are my favorite painters." Manet's famous Déjeuner sur I'Herbe, in which nude models picnic contentedly with their fully dressed and well-known men about Paris, particularly attracted him. Rivers decided to achieve the same shock value; he persuaded his elderly mother-in-law, Berdie, to pose for 20 exacting, and mostly nude, examinations of anatomy. The result was almost as great a scandal as Washington...
...dedicate their lives to one's assistance." Dawn at Reyn's Cop describes how history catches up with a young Boer who kills a Kaffir servant and discovers to his horror that the law is seriously prepared to demand a white life for a black one. The Picnic depicts an Englishwoman stupefied to find herself in love with an Arab...