Word: quaintly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spaghetti & Seminars. After work, the interns go on gobbling up political atmosphere in a college version of the Washington cocktail circuit. They turn quaint Georgetown houses into lively dormitories, spend their thin weekly Government salaries (about $50) feeding each other wine-and-spaghetti dinners, and vie to impress each other-and each other's dates-with the latest poop from the office. On hot news, they like to boast, the intern network scoops the wire services by at least three hours. But they choke up dutifully on classified information, which doubly helps to promote what one Yaleman jokingly calls...
...college student recently returned from Europe, I want to congratulate you on the photographs for "The New Europe" [July 13]. They are the most exciting pictures I've seen of Europe. They point out that Europe is not all castles and quaint villages. JON HUBER Eureka, Calif...
...quaint notion is that they all love one another, and that a month's vacation together on the West Coast will help them show it. They get to a crumbling gingerbread monstrosity by the sea. It's a barrel-of-fun house, of course, with live-in bats and a pump that requires surgery. Before Dad can get the luggage stowed away ("My friends all call me Redcap"), his two married daughters show up with broody broods in tow. and in obvious need of a good divorce counselor. One little grandson, who seems to have been born under...
...doodads and two-tone coachwork. But the feature that will bring the loudest howls from Gleason and other reactionary cue sticklers is the new look of the table-topping: it now comes in blue, beige, tangerine and gold. Green? You could order it, too, if you want to be quaint...
...intention to tell the President how to run the country, tell Rusk how to run the State Department, tell Freeman how to run the Department of Agriculture, and Bobby Kennedy to-you know, how to get the steel guys. Since I've been writing about quaint people in Europe, now it's my turn to write about quaint people in the United States...