Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Waldorf. After Britain, King captured Canada, and then achieved his greatest prominence in the U.S. (the Sullivan show, the Garry Moore program) with curt wisecracks mostly about the sorrows of suburbia: "I really believe my wife collects the garbage from the neighbors just so I can take...
...Rolls and a $250,000 suburban home in Long Island, King knows whereof he piques. "I've been making fun of weddings and bar mitzvahs for years," he says. "Then when my son's turn comes, I turn around and do it worse. It was at the Waldorf. I had a $150 heart-shaped chopped-liver mold. The cook said, 'For $50 more I can make it pulsate.' I had more fun making an idiot of myself...
...last decade, its editors have written foppish editorials scorning the semi-autobiographical short stories produced in undergraduate writing courses. One such editorial, by Robert P. Fichter '60, mocks the "Harvard sex story" genre of the 1950's; he contends that the familiar locales of these stories--Widener, the Waldorf, the banks of the Charles, a fifth floor in Lowell--have been played out. But "Winter Term," by Sallie Bingham '58, is like Nemerov's stories: perceptive, caring, indelible...
Convinced that education is the way to preserve the identity of Judaism, Jewish organizations are showing increasing concern about the quality of their schools. This week 250 leaders of Conservative Judaism gathered at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to plan for future expansion. Next March the American Association for Jewish Education, which is now supported by 15 major organizations representing all branches of Judaism, will sponsor a national conference to discuss such problems as cooperative textbook development and coordinating schools run by individual synagogues under community-wide organizations. Toughest problem by far: how to reach the thousands of young...
...matter what Erikson section men may say, until senior year having an identity crisis is just an excuse for problems like breaking up with your high school girl because she wore white gloves all through Jubilee weekend, even the night you went to the Waldorf. The real identity crisis is produced by the questions asked on senior applications--"The Curriculum Vitae should be a picture of yourself as an individual...