Word: breakfaster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tickets, available in University Hall, entitle faculty to breakfast, lunch, or dinner in any House, Guests must show their officer's cards...
...inciting the ensuing demonstration. Dunbar was demoted by the faculty, but the students rallied behind him and agreed to boycott--breakfast. The Corporation and Overseers conceded that the butter was rotten, but they insisted the students apologize for their insubordination or resign. They apologized...
...that his father-in-law is also a minister, Mondale said: "I have never thought it proper for political leaders to use religion to partisan advantage by advertising their own faith and questioning their opponent's. But the issue must be joined. Religion, Mr. Reagan told a prayer breakfast in Dallas, needs defenders against those who care only for the interests of the state. His clear implication was that he welcomed such a role for himself. The Queen of England, where state religion is established, is called the Defender of the Faith. But the President of the United States...
...Democrat's extemporaneous exegesis was unusual, but it did not come out of the blue. Just four days earlier in Dallas at a prayer breakfast, President Reagan had declared that politics and religion were inseparable. He charged that opponents of organized prayer in public schools "are intolerant of religion," that "morality's foundation is religion" and that "without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure." The President got a response at least as enthusiastic as Mondale's. The emotion on both sides reveals a fundamental disagreement in U.S. society over the role that religious beliefs should...
DIED. Truman Capote, 59, eternal enfant terrible of American letters and author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood and several collections of short stories; of unknown causes; in Bel Air, Calif, where his body was found by police in a mansion owned by Johnny Carson's former wife Joanne. Born in New Orleans and raised a lonely child there and in New York City and New England, he was hired at 17 by The New Yorker as a cartoon sorter; even before the huge success seven years later of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms...