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Some places, people dine at noon; in Cambridge, it is the hour of decision. In this case, one man's steak is another man's roast beef. Arthur Schlesinger's History 169 (Room 18, 2 Divinity Avenue, Harry Levin's English 126 (Harvard 4), and Perry Miller's Hum 111 (Sever 18) are the competing extravaganzas...
Tired but thrilled, Bernstein wanted to spend a night in Turkey listening to the folk music he finds "deep, rich, untouched." But he had played so long himself that no cabaret was still open, and he settled for a Turkish meal of goat cheese, pilaf and kuzu firin (roast lamb). Too soon, it was time to head for the airport and a performance in Salonika, Greece. Among the concerts still ahead on the Philharmonic's world tour: 18 in Russia, five in Poland and Yugoslavia. By the time it returns in October, the Philharmonic will have seen ten weeks...
...Backs." On Saturday evening, Nixon hosted a roast-beef dinner for Khrushchev at the U.S. embassy's Spaso...
...evening began, in the tradition of Ike's black-tie stag dinners, with cocktails in the second-floor oval study. The party moved to the state dining room (main course: roast beef), then on to brandy and coffee in the book-lined, ground-floor library. Net reportorial result: an informal, wide-ranging press conference, with the President speaking his mind freely, unworried by direct quotations. Items...
...Encolpius suggests they divide their belongings and separate. Ascyltus agrees-and draws his sword, threatening to divide the boy Giton. The most sustained satire of the volume describes a lavish dinner at the mansion of Trimalchio, wealthy and flatulent onetime slave. He presents each outrageous new dish-a roast sow. for instance, with a bellyful of live thrushes-displaying all the joy of a labor racketeer showing off the power ashtrays on his Cadillac. The guests snicker at Trimalchio's ostentation-but their faces are smeared from the food they have choked down...