Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Johnson was entertaining at a stag luncheon last week when his wife slipped into the dining room, motioned to the gentlemen to remain seated, and went to her husband's side. "I hope," said Lady Bird, "you'll set aside 30 minutes for my little project." The project, Lyndon explained later, was a half-hour afternoon nap for himself. It seems that Lady Bird has been campaigning to slow down her locomotive husband. Only recently, the President found a note from her pinned to his pillow. The note, said Lyndon, made "a definite recommendation that I take...
Reading period and exam period come twice a year to everyone in the Harvard community. Everyone, that is, but the gentlemen of the Department of Buildings and Grounds. While students attempt to make up back work, write papers, work out problem sets and read, Buildings and Grounds sticks to its year-round schedule. B & G's men remain busy at their usual tasks; painting students' rooms, varnishing woodwork in students' rooms, removing wallpaper in students' rooms, and cutting lawns outside students' rooms (during the spring). Perhaps the powers that be in Buildings and Grounds could find a better time...
...Sweeney's barber chair, a lever is pulled, and chug, chug, chug--the infernal contraption hauls the fellow off to be chopped up for the filling of veal pies. Sweeney's activities affect a wide circle of people including a hypocritical parson, an asylum warden, a judge, various military gentlemen, a tubercular heroine, and other hangers...
...writing on early society is a high point of the book. In "Leaves Culled From the Journal of a Lady of Fashion," the life of Ward McAllister's day comes through better than his memoirs relate it. "Breakfast at Delmonico's--1893" tells of young gentlemen spending lively, idle afternoons in days long since past. Frank Crowninshield, longtime editor of Vanity Fair, considers society from 1888 to the post war age in "Ten Thousand Nights in a Dinner Coat." Dividing his recollections into the Rustic, Pompous, Boom and Jazz periods, he notes it was at one time fashionable...
...gentlemen in question-an Italian, a Frenchman, a Yugoslav, a Greek -are the generally obscure writers who won Nobel Prizes (worth $51,158 this year) between 1959 and 1963. In 62 years of Nobel-picking, the Swedish Academy of Literature has ignored an incredible array of logical candidates-Chekhov, Conrad, Frost, Hardy, Ibsen, Joyce, Sartre, Malraux, Moravia, Pound, Proust, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola-not to mention the glaring neglect of non-European writers, notably in China, India and Japan...