Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concerned at the Final Solution to the Feisal Banquet Problem decided on by Mayor Lindsay. It is unfortunate that the State Department, New York and the Jewish community faltered so badly in this moment of international crisis. The obvious solution was to proceed with the banquet at some notable Jewish restaurant, such as Gluckstern's or Poliacoff's. After feasting on chicken soup with matzoth balls, gefilte fish, and boiled beef with horseradish, it is inconceivable that one drop of animosity toward Israel could remain in Feisal's kingly body. To consolidate this initial victory, I would...
...glad. New York's official rebuff hardly negated the warm welcome he had received from President Johnson in Washington, his interested visits to Williamsburg and other historic sites, or the friendly applause he was to hear at the U.N., where U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg dutifully attended a banquet for the King. Indeed, the furor effectively countered charges by leftist Arabs, led by Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, that Saudi Arabia was merely a tool of the U.S. "On balance," mused a State Department expert, "this probably helps him in the Arab world...
...unexpected target. Mayor Richard Daley, he wrote, was quite right when he blamed the trouble on "outside influences." One of those out side influences, continued Royko, "was Mayor Daley. He manages to attend many wakes in his part of town. But when the Puerto Ricans invited him to a banquet last week-their biggest social event of the year, except for the riot-he couldn't make...
...must have been heading for a truly climactic Hollywood role-maybe as Bette Davis' grandmother in Son of Elizabeth and Essex. Certainly no sane Broadway producer could have thought of her as a high-stepping, pratfalling, ageless kook of an Auntie Mame who believes that "life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death." But that is just what she's doing. She is playing the title role in Mame, the musical-comedy version of Patrick Dennis' novel-play-movie. Mame is Broadway's top musical hit of the season...
...lift her eyebrows. When she meets a Southern aristocrat named Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, she promptly marries him, goes "Sooth," and teaches the hunting gentry a thing or two by bringing the fox back alive. Mame has gusto, gallantry, and an unshakable philosophy: "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death...