Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday night, 300 guests gathered in the Kennedy Library's vast Glass Pavillion for a reception and black-the banquet illuminated only by dozens of tiny shotglass candles and the glittering lights of the skyline across the harbor...
Harvard's role in the whole affair became a little clearer when, at the banquet, Stephen Swid, vice-chairman of GFL/Knoll, presented the first GFL/Knoll Creative Leadership Award to Marcel Breuer, a designer and architect who taught at Harvard in the '30s and '40s. Illness prevented Breuer--celebrated for the tubular steel chair that bears his name--from attending the presentation...
Television may do for businessmen what a Borgia banquet did for casual dining. From Dallas' oily antihero J.R. Ewing on down, most businessmen on television are depicted as crooks, amoral wheeler-dealers, criminals with Mafia connections, cheats, employers of professional arsonists and, worse still, jerks, clowns and buffoons. With the exception of Margaret Pynchon, the gracious owner of the Los Angeles Tribune on Lou Grant, nowhere on prime time is there anyone remotely resembling such constructive businessmen as Joseph C. Wilson of Xerox, Edwin Land of Polaroid, Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors or Thomas Watson...
...swim banquet, held last night at the Harvard Club of Boston, co-captains Bobby Hackett and Geoff Seelen formally relinquished their positions to sophomores Ted Chappell and Larry Countryman...
Afterwards, the teams feasted together at a banquet, and with the kind of ceremony that properly surrounds storybook competition, drank toasts to the rulers of each other's countries...