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...YORK, N.Y.After consuming a sumptuous roast beef au jus repast at the Essex House to the clippity-clop of horse and buggies conveying honeymooning couples down Central Park South, the Harvard hoopsters journeyed uptown to the somewhat less-than-splendiferous lavender linoleum floor of Nat Holman Gymnasium, for a wide-open shoot-'em-up game against the City College of New York...
Pendleton is a slyly winning con man, Irving a pompously discombobulated pol, and the rest of the cast is thoroughly dependable in this wackily comic repast fit for a czar...
AFTER A SUMPTUOUS repast not long ago, some writers sitting around a table in the corner of a large dining hall got on the subject of the coming depression--always only coming for most Harvard students. Amid the gossip of what's being written in other parts, one Kentuckian, amber-voiced and somnolent, got to talking excitedly about a book about poor back-hills people commissioned by the Louisville Courier Journal "in the style of Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Another Southerner quipped smilingly--not wanting to disparage such excitement but with full knowledge of Agee--that...
...Islamic law commands, five times a day. When he is in Jeddah, he likes to take a prayer rug to the shore and meditate beside the sea. On Thursday evenings, when he visits a mosque for prayers, other worshipers are often invited home with him for a post-prayer repast. His personal life continues to be more ascetic than that of many of his subjects. The King dislikes opulence. Succeeding Saud, he declared his brother's al Hamra palace in Jeddah "foo ornate for me." Decreed the new King: "We will use it for our guests." Faisal does...
This is one of those high-calorie family comedies in which the. characters shout a lot, laugh uproariously, cry a little and ponder life's minor ironies over a full dinner plate. At a guess, the playgoer should arrive gorged, since the theatrical repast at Manhattan's Martin Beck Theater is just an amiable morsel...