Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gothic? With a little imagination and more funds the true splendors of the Middle Ages could be recalled. The glare of electric lights should be replaced by the romantic and less expensive flicker of torches. Mass produced desks and chairs are an anachronism; more in keeping would be oaken banquet tables and hand wrought benches. Crossed lances and suits of armor would be more appealing than flags and plaques. In keeping with the medieval atmosphere, the psychological laboratories in the basement should become dungeons and the white mice replaced by Social Relations majors on probation...
Yale might not believe that it can afford indefinite expansion, but it seems to have faith in its ability to raise enough money to create Griswold's Athens. Speaking in October at the banquet which launched the Yale Alumni Fund drive for 1955-56, alumnus Irving S. Olds, former chairman of the board of the U.S. Steel Corporation, gave statistics which indicated, he said, that great potential sources of funds have barely been tapped...
Gold Service. That night the Nixons, official hosts in the absence of President and Mrs. Eisenhower, gave a state dinner for the Castillo Armases at Anderson House; two nights later, the Guatemalan guests responded with a banquet at the Shoreham Hotel, which got out its famed gold service for the occasion. On Mamie Eisenhower's telegraphed invitation, the Castillo Armases toured the White House-and nearly bumped into a group of touring Russian housing experts...
...sideshow nature of the play* makes possible a diversity of insights into the Comédie's methods of production. If much is traditional and even ritualistic, very little seems petrified. In view of interspersed high slapstick of dancing and singing and fencing masters, of ostentatious banquet scenes and staircase serenades, of a Turkish fandango suggesting fraternal-order shenanigans. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme becomes a varied though lengthy evening. Despite its measure of real low comedy, it retains a kind of ballet air. There is something ceremonious as well as earthy in its laughter, and a pinch of period charm...
More than 400 Armenians launched a three-year drive for the endowment of a chair in Armenian history and culture by pledging $28,230 at a banquet in the Boston Harvard Club last night. The National Association for Amernian Studies and Research, sponsor of the project, now has about $38,000 of the $300,000 necessary for the chair...