Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handsome, grey-haired woman from Prove, Utah, stood before a banquet gathering of 1,000 at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and explained that youngsters "expect a little discipline" and need to be "held to certain ideals." She has the credentials to back up her comment. In 56 years of marriage, she and her engineer husband have seen their six children become a university president, a company vice president, a top corporation lawyer, a mathematician, a physicist, a housewife, and have themselves become grandparents 26 times over. Obviously such a brood exemplifies "family life at its very best...
...ever. Screening off unsightly slum areas, Sukarno laced Djakarta's avenues with flags and festive arches, assigned each of the 35 Afro-Asian emissaries-from Chou En-lai to Imperial Princess Ashraf of Iran-his own personal motorcade, complete with screaming sirens. Best of all was the state banquet, held in the candlelit Bali Room of the Hotel Indonesia. There, while Javanese maidens crooned native melodies, Sukarno fed his guests three French wines and six full courses-including sto Bandung (a rice stew) and a flaming ice cream dish titled bombe glacée Afro-Asia...
...that came his way with a grave and innocent equanimity. In the capital, he endured the standard tourist treatment, discovered the "sweet relationship" between waffles and syrup, stood in the Lincoln Memorial and "timidly waved at the immortal face." Skagit Valley College received him with a banner and a banquet. The family that "adopted" him had redecorated the spare bedroom. Neighbors stopped in with cakes. Huntley-Brinkley televised him. Some will pin the word "naive" on Legson's wide-eyed good will and on America's cozy, corny reception of him. But there may be more basic human...
Hayes learned of his achievement for the first time at the Swimming Awards Banquet last week, which was sort of a testimonial dinner for seniors Mahoney and Dave Abramson, Mahoney won three wards: the William J. Brooks diving award, the Friends of Harvard Swimming Award for an undefeated senior, and the Stowell award for the greatest improvement in his college career...
...Babylon, a cardboard mock-up of D. W. Griffith's 1916 film epic, Intolerance. As in a spectacular dollhouse, chariots, dancers, spear bearers, and potentates in braided beards are framed betwixt potbellied columns. Atop them trumpet curly-trunked elephants, seated like corpulent Hollywood-style brokers at a banquet. Playful, punning, and still a sophisticated commentary, it is, like most of Red Grooms's art, a toy for adults...