Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin crowd, a summer-night buzz of fans interrupted by an occasional drink being shaken at the small bar. It is dark in here . . . Fans in the prayer for cool salvation. From the next booth drifts the conversation of radio executives; from the green salad comes the little taste of garlic. Behind me . . . a young intellectual is trying to persuade a girl to come live with him and he his love. She has her guard up, but he is extremely reasonable, careful not to overplay his hand . . . In the mirror over the bar I can see the ritual...
...White, poet, humorists, and editorial for the New Yorker, has written something called "Here is New York," has given it meaning, and has done all this in 54 pages. He did in the only conceivable manner: One summer day he left his sometime home in Maine (where the serenity of the pine trees would not let a man write well about New York) and moved to "a stiffing hotel room in 90-degree heat, halfway down an air shaft, in midtown...
...interested in going abroad this summer will meet in the Lamont Forum Room at 4:30 p.m. today to hear Miss Helen Bryan, Executive Secretary in Charge of International Tours for NSA, outline NSA Foreign Tours...
Also speaking at the meeting will be Richard M. Sandler '52, who will give a short summary of the NSA trip he took last summer. After their talks, Miss Bryan and Sandler will answer questions concerning the 1950 tours...
...This summer's tours are of three main types: Study tours will travel in groups of between 25 and 70 and will visit European countries to study their social conditions and culture. Workcamps and workcamp tours will be in operation for those who wish to lessen the expenses of going abroad. Summer study seminars are also organized to permit students to study in schools on the continent...