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...freshman picnic at Radcliffe Yard. The brochure says this event is "informal." Actually, you have to go out and buy a tux or evening gown to dine on rubbery chicken. Actually, you don't. You may as well trek up Garden St. to absorb the atmosphere, lie on the grass, maybe meet a few new people. Avoid the food, though...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Week Gets Weaker | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...tux...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Smell of the Crowd | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...benefit for the Special Olympics, a Kennedy family project. It might have been one of those times that a President, just slightly irritated over Kennedy's divisive tactics, could have called in with a cold. But too many people were watching. Carter put on his tux and his grin and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Time Is Running Thin | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...mask, he insists, can be the essence of civility. Carter sometimes seems to go in the opposite direction to show the world he will not live up to tradition. He would not wear his tuxedo for the state dinner in France's Versailles Palace, but he put the tux on to appear at the political fund raiser in Atlanta set up by his deposed pal Bert Lance. Theodore H. White, an authority on Presidents and how they got there, has long contended that class is a critical part of politics. "Class is a matter of style in leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A Troublesome Question of Class | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...friend Milt told me what I should wear. 'Wear a plain colored shirt and a jacket,' he told me. I know they don't like colorful dressers because my friends told me not to dress the way I usually do. And then, the first time I got into a tux--the first time ever--I was standing in the club talking to Tom and he told me that I had my studs in backwards. 'Go into the bathroom and change those things,' Tom said to me. That's how I knew clothes were important." Ed adds that he felt that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ed Bordley Grapples with Being Blind, Being Black and Being at Harvard | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

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