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...Fred R. Waugh, a tutor in Eliot House this year, says that the personal rapport that a tutor has with students is essential...
Many of the teas have themes: one this year was based on the works of British author Evelyn Waugh and featured a teddy bear named Aloysius and strawberries and champagne, details taken from Waugh's Brideshead Revisited...
...impossible to envision Kahn up in the stands of any Olympic stadium, on his feet, cheering loudly for an athlete or a nation. Rather, we like to think of him as a sharp, spry middle-aged man in a brown suit sitting pleasantly in his seat reading something by Waugh. Occasionally, he'll look up at the action going on in front of him, pull out his little notebook, jot something down, and resume his reading...
...face of the generally miserable Olympic coverage, it's nice to be able to fall back on Kahn. But we'd never actually want to meet the man for fear that he turns out not to be the graying, dapper, eccentric man in the stands with a copy of Waugh in one hand and a neat little notebook in the other...
...addition, California's image has been fashioned largely by interlopers from the East, who tend to look on it as a kind of recumbent dumb blond, so beautiful that it cannot possibly have any other virtues. Thus the California of the imagination is an unlikely compound of Evelyn Waugh's Forest Lawn, Orson Welles' Hearst Castle, every screenwriter's Locustland and Johnny Carson's "beautiful downtown Burbank." Nice house, as they say, but nobody's at home...