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...wouldn’t be surprised if people drank heavily in their rooms before,” she said, “and that’s a shame...
Ultimately, Seinfeld is a traditionalist. For him, there's no shame in being Alan King in a tuxedo holding an unlit cigar and the audience's attention. "In fact, it's a high calling," he says. "An honor." Still, wouldn't you be reaching more people and having more of an effect if you were on TV? "Reaching more people, yes. Having more of an effect, no." But what makes you get on that plane every week? Is it the applause? He answers slowly. "Not really. The laugh is the vote...
...integration into society, two family-type homes for children with severe handicaps and one mother-and-child unit. But with the government, local authorities and foreign humanitarian organizations all moving in the same direction, an air of hope hangs over a system that was once a worldwide symbol of shame. That optimism is shared by Nina at Casa Austria. "I want to be big when I grow up," she burbles, before scurrying off to play with some puppies in the backyard...
...It’s a shame that Lynch feels she has to pander to her patrons. One waiter told me that she rarely serves pasta, for which she is justifiably famous, because diners do not feel they should be eating pasta in such a fine restaurant. It’s a double shame, because this restaurant has so much to offer, even aside from the food: a fantastic and highly personal wine list selected by reigning Boston wine queen Cat Silirie, a passionate and brilliant service staff that not only can describe every minute detail of a dish, from farm...
...that is often raised by the time commitment involved with being a public intellectual is whether university officials should impose restrictions on the types of public-intellectual work in which their professors participate. “[Administrators] can try having lunch with their local public intellectuals and try to shame them into doing a little more scholarly work,” Mansfield quips. “I understand that was tried at Harvard...