Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents have every right, says Tish, to say: "Look, this is our house. You can both go to the hotel near by and pay for your own room if you refuse to accept the moral code of this house.") Generally Baldrige gives unmarried couples living together sympathetic though somewhat chilly treatment: "If they are breaking a moral law, it is their business and no one else's ... It has become ... a way of life. We must therefore cope with it as such." Baldrige hardheadedly notes that a single woman living with a man should find a good gynecologist to supply...
...eaten with the fingers, and salad may be cut with a knife, she ordains. (The old stricture against cutting salad with a knife was meant to spare the hostess's silver-plated blade, which could be corroded by vinegar dressing.) But it still is "heresy to cut spaghetti." Somewhat conservatively, Baldrige advises that fried chicken "should be eaten with the fingers only on such occasions as picnics, barbecues, boat rides and other informal outdoor gatherings." As for caviar, "never take more than a teaspoonful, or you will have everyone glaring at you, thinking there won't be any left...
Washington. D.C., is the nation's capital, but its social rituals are a distinct tradition somewhat apart from the rest of American practice. While the nation may be just returning to some formality, Washington never really abandoned it. Says Betty Beale. Washington Star society columnist since 1945: "We've always been a long-evening-dress kind of town." Jimmy Carter is bringing blue jeans and an occasional touch of country to Washington, but the Government and diplomatic corps have never mothballed their dinner jackets. Still, the abrasions of sexual politics are a distinctly new development in high Government circles. Patricia...
...report on teaching was, as Wilga M. Rivers, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and her colleagues on the committee explained, to raise our corporate Faculty consciousness of a real problem at Harvard in preparation for implementing improvements. It was not the time or place for impassioned--and somewhat easy--speeches on the need to minister to student pedagogical needs. (As one speaker pointed out, perhaps anachronistically but nonetheless cogently, being in facor of teaching is like being in favor of motherhood.) It was, rather, the place for listening to a statement about the shortcomings of Harvard as a teaching...
...which teaching skills might receive unwonted (and, yes, in some quarters, unwanted) recognition at this University had actually gotten off the ground. Student interest and pressure can help keep it in flight, and may, indeed, be essential to keeping it in flight. But partial and, I'm afraid, somewhat automatic newspaper responses to what's being done to nurture this (for contemporary Harvard) rara avis, are not too helpful. Peter Dale Allston Burr Senior Tutor