Word: pubã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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Friday afternoons at the British embassy are a sort of happy hour, where the on-site pub??the Steppe Inne (pun intended, obviously)—opens for its weekly get-together. The local anglophones and anglophiles gather for some shared company. Western diplomats, expatriate businessmen, students, travelers and even a few Commonwealth types put in a showing. The American ambassador was complaining recently about the local labor market and the bureaucracy at the Russian embassy. The British ambassador was putting in his usual two hours a week behind the bar, pulling pints in person...
...nonetheless believe, whole-hear tedly, in the concept of special obligations between their country and the U.S. As with so much of the reproach of U.S. foreign policy I have heard on the ground—whether it comes from members of Parliament, taxi drivers or strangers in a pub??even the most bitter critics rest their vitriol on a foundation of deep respect and sympathy for America. They see the U.S. as a strong, vibrant and self-assured nation, and while they look up to America in many ways, they worry at the same time. Like aging...
...Pub?? (as I will refer it) is a subterranean enclave unremarkable in nearly every respect, offering an entirely un-unique mixture of mediocre menu items and overpriced libations. But the Pub manages to do great business, as it is known to youthful denizens of Manhattan’s Upper West Side as one of all too few establishments that will serve alcohol to anyone tall enough to get their head over the counter. The many Columbia undergrads who frequent the Pub still have what we have lost: an FDE. (Free Drinking Establishment, not to be confused with...
...able (perhaps as a deserved compensation for audaciously defying the authorities) to exact prices on drinks that exceed what one can purchase retail in a corner store by many hundred percent. But in another important sense, every drop of mind-numbing ferment that passes into the hands of the Pub??s thirsty customers is absolutely gratis—free of the pesky “I’m gonna need to see some...