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...dressing. To a French base, the Athens adds olives oil, vinegar, and rigone, sprinkles with imported Greek Feta cheese, and tops with a garnishing of tomatoes, anchovies, and Greek black Oliver. The Feta cheese, when served in blocks, tastes like a mild Camambert and is fine as dessert. But crumbled to the consistency of cottage cheese, it becomes a staple ingredient for Greek cooking...
...more than the hours spent re-copying or typing 600 word themes, is the excellent reading material offered. This reading is not only of an informative, analytical nature, valuable in itself, but also includes several note worthy critiques of trends in the English language. To top this off, like dessert after an interest-awakening banquet, seem to be a lively five weeks of selected poems of the English language, most of them quite short and to say the least, pithy. The prospect of that remarkable novel, referred to periodically by many college lecturers, 1984, also looms in the future...
...harassed the public library for Shakespeare, George Moore and Mme. de Sevigne. He wrote letters to an imaginary friend called George: "I must go now as I am up for a fight with a boy named Saul who called me a freak and announced his intention of making a dessert for pigs of me if I did not take off my hat before him . . . Lovingly, Thornton Niven Wilder...
...ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...
...voices. In the courtyard, ringed by students, their dates, and passersby from Memorial Drive were the Dunster Dunces, giving an impromptu concert. It so happened that the Dunces had suddenly discovered themselves sitting at the same table at lunch that after-noon. Naturally enough, they started to sing. After dessert, they filed out of the Dining Hall, still singing, and held forth in the Courtyard for a full half-hour...