Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With your tarte au fraises, on a hot afternoon, you might have a citron pressee ($.50) made with lemons squeezed there in front of you. With a Babu au Rhum doused with extra rum and sugar, you might have a cup of tea; with a Napoleon, a cup of American coffee. Croissant and French coffee are as dependable as De Gaulle's amour propre...
...course called Witchcraft, Magic and Astrology at New York University, takes a dim view of the whole movement. "Most occultniks," says Rachleff, "are either frauds of the intellectual and/or financial variety, or disturbed individuals who frequently mistake psychosis for psychic phenomena." Yet for all its trivial manifestations in tea-leaf readings and ritual gewgaws, for all the outright nuts and charlatans it attracts, occultism cannot be dismissed as mere fakery or faddishness. Clearly, it is born of a religious impulse and in many cases it becomes in effect a substitute faith...
...begins as an ordinary day in a distinctly uncommon marriage. Bri (Alan Bates) comes home to his Bristol flat after a typically wretched time teaching school. His wife Sheila (Janet Suzman) has tea waiting and dinner warming in the oven. They joke together, Bri tries to coax Sheila into bed, and their only child comes home from school. She is called, with a mixture of brutal humor and despair, Joe Egg. She is autistic, beyond help and hope-a child barely aware of her own life who slumps in her high chair like a boiled vegetable...
...addition to her official duties as Pusey's wife, Anne Pusey was known for her helpfulness to younger faculty members and to graduate and foreign students in the University. The tea she and Dr. Pusey hosted for each incoming freshman class never failed to awe half of the newcomers, amuse others and leave still others altogether bewildered...
Periodically throughout the school year, a brief note would appear on the front page of The Crimson inviting faculty members to Sunday afternoon tea at 17 Quincy Street, where the Puseys resided for 17 years and reared three children. Their son, James R. Pusey '62, is currently a teaching fellow in East Asian Studies here...