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Nightclub checks at Giro's and Sans Souci often run into three figures, and if the waiter adds a 20 for himself, few complain. Last week a shipload of Rolls-Royce limousines was en route from England to retail at $13,000. All were spoken for-including one for President Alem...
...Bites, Say Nothing. But most etiquettists were deadly serious in wising-up social aspirants: "[Do not] seize ladies by the waist." Never let your hostess "know that you have found . . . insects in your bed." If you "throw down a waiter loaded with splendid cut glass . . . you should not. .. appear the least mortified...
Pascal was indignant. In his 16 years as a waiter at the Café de Flore, in Paris' bohemian Latin Quarter, Pascal had heard more crackpot talk about art, letters and life than a hundred ordinary men hear in a lifetime. For Pascal, most of it went in one ear and out the other. But he remembered that last year there was a haze of glory around the Café de Flore, when Existentialism was in its first febrile flower. Jean-Paul Sartre, the wall-eyed little founder of Existentialism, and his disciples jabbered nightly at the Flore. Admiring...
...spite of his eminent philosophical name, these considerations meant nothing to Pascal, the waiter at the Café de Flore, who was much more interested in tips. Both the Lettrists and the Sensorialists disdained the Flore. The Lettrists patronized more congenial spots on the Right Bank, of all places; the Sensorialists, for reasons connected with their erotic ethic, avoided all saloons. "France has had enough café literature," Sensorialist LeGrand had said. "Cafés are fine for anyone who merely wants adventures...
...formerly employed in the Houses as a student waiter, the recent pay raise granted the regular personnel of the College Dining Halls is an appropriate occasion for questioning the policy of the University toward Harvard students working in the same jobs. The unhandy hours and limitations upon extra-curricular activity that these jobs impose make them trying enough, but college men employed as student waiters also find that in most wage matters the University discriminates against them in favor of the high school students with whom they work. Specifically, the high school students receive the regular hourly rate and free...