Kenneth Clark was an astonishing person when I was a teenager. He did a 13 part series for the BBC TV called 'Civilization".  It was an enormous show over here. Sad to think know one in England remembers him. One more reason for anyone in a sack suit in England to be sent to Guantanamo to be waterboarded.

Oh, and Russell Street, to paraphrase Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting: "You like apples? How do you like them apples?"

if anyone thinks that the people on here are loutish, then they've had a very sheltered existence...

Is tmc22 the Russell Street collective talking amongst themselves ?

I never know with these things.

Last edited by Uncle Oswald (2010-05-22 06:57:21)

Yeah, sooo, back on the topic of the thread, too bad the Williams Club closed...

Especially as I am moving to the city shortly and was considering joining...it was the club for NESCAC schools' alumni.  The news kind of settled it. I will likely be joining a different non-alumni club nearby that someone has offered to put me up for that in addition to being a club is also part of the MSRA. A better value, really.

And the clubs--the college ones in New York, the University in Hartford, the various clubs and restaurants in Boston such as Locke-Ober, were part of a lifestyle...the mid-century corporate lifestyle...of longer lunches, and closer ties...which has been replaced by sitting at your desk for lunch. 

Noting that change hardly makes one a poseur as has been insinuated.