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...Park Avenue apartment with an extensive collection of impressionist and primitive paintings (his favorite artists: Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Ilonka Karasz) and shelves of Dresden china, porcelain figurines and antique service plates. His personal chef "may possibly be the greatest chef in the whole world." Even when the Liebmans dine alone, service is formal: "We always have wine and finger bowls...
...fact is, Britons have long had a color bar, but they have simply exported it. A distinguished Indian can dine at Claridge's in London, but not in the "Europeans Only" restaurants of Nairobi. If there is segregation in Kenya's schools (which there is), if a Negro woman must shop through a hatch in the wall in Rhodesia (which she must), the decent Englishman at home hears about it in no village pub, worries over it in no angry parish meeting. It all happens several thousand miles away, and in another country...
...some of the associates, the attempt to simulate the benefits of resident tutors, has been both successful and enjoyable. They have made it a point to dine at Radcliffe several times each month, occasionally drop in for lunch, and even lecture informally on topics in their fields. They are easily approachable for such things as letters of recommendation. But for most of the associates, there has been more than a six-block gap between the theory and practice of the program. Because of their stature and attendant responsibilities, many of the affiliated professors have been able to offer only cursory...
Christmas Every Day. Elsa entertained kings and queens, broke bread with half the British Cabinet, got on first-name terms with most of the Almanack de Gotha. But she refused to meet Mussolini, and her telegraphed reply to an invitation to dine with Farouk I of Egypt went straight to the point: "I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just...
These surviving 18 will dine with the editors of the CRIMSON tomorrow evening and will be interviewed afterward in an attempt to reduce the ranks...