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...inform your readers that in my last book [The Doors of Perception], I "prescribe mescaline, a derivative of peyote, for all mankind as an alternative to cocktails." Snappiness, alas, is apt to be in inverse ratio to accuracy. In actual fact, I did not prescribe mescaline for all mankind. I merely suggested that it might be a good thing if psychologists, sociologists and pharmacologists were to get together and discuss the problem of a satisfactory drug for general consumption. Mescaline, I said, would not do. But a chemical possessing the merits of mescaline without its drawbacks would certainly be preferable...
While the entrees approached magnificence, desserts held their own. Hot chocolate soup may sound like a childhood attempt to find the right ratio between fudge sauce and ice cream in a sundae. But the dish was highly sophisticated, made from velvety, warm, bittersweet chocolate swirled with a touch of cream and punctuated by croutons of cinnamon pound cake. The second dessert, slices of wine-soaked strudel wrapped in phyllo pastry and served with poached pear, saves the tables from gluttonous chocolate saturation and coffee inevitably rounds out the meal...
...illustrate the problem: your article cites the fact that there are 247 male and 242 female biology concentrators, or 50.5 to 49.5 percent, and concludes that women are therefore only 1 percent less. But the male-female ratio among all Harvard students is 54 to 46, so there are actually proportionately more women biology concentrators...
...waitress, Theresa, was extremely helpful and friendly, bringin out warm, dense bread and garbanzo bean/garlic tapenade almost immediately. The sangria-$13 for a large pitcher with an impressively low sangria-to-ice-cube ratio--disappeared almost as quickly as the bread...
Over the last two hundred years, the ratio of black to white residents in Concord has changed just slightly...