Longtime readers of national review will recognize the contest announced on the next page as a repetition of our very first contest ever, announced in the December 2, 1969, number of the magazine. We are repeating it because, now more than ever, conversation starters have become a necessity in our constant meeting of strangers. Too many people have known the agony of sitting mutely next to an equally mute unknown person. Thus, ever sympathetic to unnecessary agonies, we devised this contest to break the ice. En avant, dear readers, and show your mettle!
Recently, I went to a luncheon introducing the 1983 vintage of Opus One, the vastly overpriced but excellent red wine developed jointly by Robert Mondavi, of California’s Napa Valley, and Baron Philippe de Rothschild, of Château Mouton in Bordeaux; it is made at the Mondavi winery by their respective winemakers.
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