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Dining in the Colleges is scarcely better, perhaps inferior to the Houses. But Colleges, because of their size, manage to smokescreen gastronomic deficiencies with graciousness. The dining rooms are smaller and proportionately quieter. Students queue up for their stew and ice cream inside the separate College Kitchens and succeed in making the dining halls look like desirable men's clubs rather than cafeterias. In fact, in pre-war days when food was good and served on plates by waitresses, the resemblance of Colleges to good men' clubs was one of their chief attractions to undergraduates...
Wedding Bells Quieter...
...fourth we've picked up on the way in here this morning." Said MacArthur: "That's courtesy." As the Asiatic sunrise broke over the black, sawtooth hills of the Korean coast, the general grasped both arms of his chair. "Just like Lingayen Gulf," he observed. "But quieter and nicer...
...blame if a general war broke out in Asia. China specialists in official posts echoed the line. "The British government sees no papal infallibility about MacArthur," snapped one British diplomat. Peevishly he denounced the general's recent visit to Formosa as "flatfooted diplomacy." The outcry muffled the quieter misgivings, mostly among Conservatives, about the wisdom of the government's China policy...
Then Warren Austin tried his hand. The week before, Austin had been flamboyant in gesture and voice. This time, on the advice of his aides, he held himself to a quieter, lower and more effective pitch (which also came across better on television). The chamber was tense and hushed as Austin spoke. All the faces around the Council table (except those of the Russians and the long, smart-aleck face of Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler) looked pleased; by the end Secretary General Trygve Lie wore a wide grin. Said Austin...