Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fled to the Patisserie Cafe Morceau. It was warm there too; though the sky was apple green, the pastries were aging but good. I loved to see Peter's strong teeth clamping down over them, demolishing them; I felt demolished too, and would order more. "Garcon," I would say to the diseased French girl who presided behind the marble-topped, crumb-lined counter, "por favor, una fumata fur meine fraulein." "Mynheer," she would always reply, smiling, and bring us another of Peter's favorite pear-filled, chocolate-covered fumates. You do not get such fumates everywhere. We would stay there...
There were seventeen problems: money; passports; tetanus-typhoid-yellow fever shots; a Greek landlady bearing an expensive product (Snyde would say, Beware! I hated him); reservations on a plane carrying ginger ale to be served with Dramamine at Gander; German, French, Italian, and Spanish for the Swiss Alps; Greek for the return voyage...How else could we preserve the rapture of passion which comes when you eat pastry at the Patisserie Cafe Morceau beside the girl you love...
When Lattimore came under attack during the McCarthy era, few came to his defense--except his colleagues at Johns Hopkins, where he has lectured at sporadic intervals for the last 25 years, and it seemed very hard for him to say that "if the conditions are right, the critical factors of society always develop. In a democracy, eventually people face the facts and the critical factors come into play. This is the strength of America, that we do question dogma...
...Director of the Budget Bureau tells us that there will be a very significant reduction in federal expenditures next year, and I say hooray to that! States and local communities are going to take over much of the burden for providing for the Needy, and I say it's a Good Thing (although I am not quite sure where they are going to get the money from...
Although it was believed that the University would soon apply for a building permit for the structure, the present change in plans has forestalled this move, and neither the University nor the architects will say when plans for the building will enable them to apply to the city for a permit...