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Andrew M. Whelan of 33 Agassiz Street and Baltimore, Maryland; Robert J. White of Adams House and Plainsboro, New Jersey; Michael B. Winship of 3 Sacramento Street and North Sandwich, New Hampshire; Charles L. Wisseman III of Kirkland House and Cickeysville, Maryland; Scott A. Young of Quincy House and Syosset, New York; David C. Zuroff of Lowell House and N. Merrick, New York City...
...gain admission to the European Economic Community. One floor below, the British team, headed by Chief Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon, passed the time playing bridge and working on position papers. On the ground floor, some 200 newsmen waited amid a litter of empty beer bottles, empty coffee cups and sandwich crusts for an end to the tough bargaining session...
...brilliant metaphorical dissection of the quality of American life-or lack of same. Baseball becomes a game for middle America; "a slow, uneventful review of existence, it serves to reinforce the dull." A visit to an artificial flavoring factory is virtually a confrontation with the war makers, while a sandwich at the Harvard Garden Grill turns into an exercise in peoples's art. With the major exception of Tom Wolfe, few American journalists-and this book is a very personal journalism-have payed proper attention to the textures of bourgeois culture. But Rosen was weaned on trade names...
Some of the chosen eponyms are familiar: the sandwich was once an earl; the pompadour a king's mistress; sadism originated with the Marquis de Sade. Many more are likely to surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...
...many economy flights of medium range, American, United and TWA have substituted sandwiches for meals and done away with midday snacks. The cost for an economy-class hot meal ranges up to $3.50; a sandwich and trimmings is well under $3. Quite a few of the lost amenities are barely missed by most passengers. For example, soup is no longer served to first-class passengers on some flights, and stewardesses now ask passengers whether they want cream and sugar with their coffee; many do not. The price of cocktails on Eastern and National has been raised from...