Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...therefore, that Columbus people should have taken to gourmet cooking with the gusto of Fellow Ohioan Ulysses S. Grant taking Vicksburg. Ohio State offers for credit classes in French, Italian, German and Chinese cuisine. The International Wine and Food Society has a thriving local chapter, which produces an annual banquet. Cooking classes have lately sprouted in a number of private homes, as well as in a few well-stocked local emporiums such as the French Market and the Cook's Palace...
...Keseberg, being a German, is supposed to have acted out of depravity, while the native Americans plead pure necessity. When Keseberg reveals that he ate his own dead daughter, the horror of the primal taboo seems to invade the playhouse. It is as if one were present at the banquet at which Atreus served up to his brother Thyestes the three sons of Thyestes, and the father, having learned what he had eaten, pronounced the awesome anathema that resonates through all of Greek tragedy...
Because of the slippery conditions, Stiles did not attempt to improve his vault mark after clinching the competition. Last night at the team banquet, Stiles received the Harwood Pole Vault Award for the fourth straight year...
...balanced slapstick and caricatured roles. The establishment is represented by truly Establishment figures clad in uptight strait-laced uniforms of preppie pink satin and navy pin stripe, a glossy Chivas Regal wealth versus patched jeans-adolescent revolt. It's fun to watch Treat Williams traipsing across an elaborately laid banquet table, trying to maximize shattered crystal in his path. It's not to be taken seriously, and thereby doesn't offend our sophisticated Seventies cynicism...
From start to finish, the 1979 Harvard Basketball Banquet was a reflection of the current men's basketball program. Caught between the academic aversion to athletics-only ethics and the pride-motivated desire for victorious teams, the Harvard hoopsters are searching for a new identity...