THE DINING rooms proved to be even
smaller than Frazier's remarks had suggested. Each con-
tained perhaps half a dozen tables of different sizes.
The rooms were decorated in various styles. It was pos-
sible to dine briskly in a white-walled room bustling
with speed and efficiency, or at leisure in a pine-paneled
Early American dining room in beeswax candlelight, or
in an English inn whose walls carried racing pictures,
or in a colorful Swedish room. Two carefully designed
modern rooms, one with booths along one wall, came
off well by comparison.

I was rather offended by this architectural hodge-
podge. The purpose, Frazier explained, had been to
make the children feel at home in some of the interiors
they would encounter outside the community. Through
some principle of behavior which I did not fully un-
derstand, it appeared that the ingestion of food had
something to do with the development of aesthetic
preferences or tolerances. The same effect could not
have been so easily obtained by decorating the lounges
in different styles.

The period rooms were grouped about a serving room
which was operated like a cafeteria, although there was

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