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...example, the President invited 14 foreign correspondents to the White House for a snack, some drinks and conversation. The scene was the second-floor living room, generally considered to be part of the President's private quarters; flames crackled in the fireplace, cheese dips and hot hors d'oeuvres were served, and a small bar had been set up at one end of the room. After about an hour, the President conducted a tour that included his own bedroom, where mauve-brown pajamas were neatly laid out on the turned-down covers...
Thomas E. Crooks '49, the new Master of Dudley House said that the change "had some advantages." These he gave as being a more convenient location, a better kitchen and grill, and more ample facilities including a large and small dining room, three common rooms, a snack bar, and a game room...
...Curators of the Louvre and the Met can only drool at the accumulations of Egyptian sculpture, Louis XV and XVI furniture, Sevres porcelain, 16th century enamelware, and wall upon wall of Goyas, Rubenses, Watteaus and Fragonards. When Philippe and Pauline have tea, their dog Bicouille is sometimes served a snack off an aluminum dish placed upon a napkin spread over their expensive rugs. Says Pauline: "We are fortunate, of course, in that we can take ten or twelve servants when we travel, and thus can have things done the way we like them wherever...
Guillermou has a certain point: words are themselves ideas that shape a people's self-image. French purists are thus aghast at the eat-and-run tone of le snack-bar as opposed to the civilized Gallic pace of le cafe. The Franglais word teen-ager is rebellious worlds apart from the dutiful jeune fille. The traitorous notion that "American is the only living language," cries Linguist Etiemble, will lead straight to what he calls, in ironic Franglais, "I' American way of life...
...parietal hours, Watson suggested that a union might ease recent parietal problems somewhat. Students ought to have a place where they can be completely free to do what they want, he said, adding that the Houses cannot serve this need. He suggested that the center include a bowling alley, snack bar, and swimming pool, and proposed that dances might be hold there on weekend nights. A married couple would serve as attendants, Watson said...