Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday mornings before home games, the whole squad gathers in the Union for breakfast. Since normal breakfast hours are over before the team eats, the Crimson must pass through a separate serving line, set up especially for it by union bureaucracy...
...appear in public. One was S.J. Perelman, the sort of writer one would want to spend not an hour or two but a few days with. The point of meeting Perelman would, however, not be to find out whether that redoubtable wit could drop a line or two over breakfast like those he penned for the Marx Brothers, nor to determine if he poured forth in conversation the astonishing, almost Nabokovian, word-play that runs through his myriad of New Yorker stories. Perelman would certainly have proven disappointing on these counts--no one could do off the cuff what...
...tour's first stop, after briefings in Washington, was in France, where Lech Walesa, the head of Poland's Solidarity trade union, came to Charles de Gaulle Airport for breakfast with the group. He was questioned closely about Solidarity's program for economic and political renewal. "If things were managed logically," Walesa said, "there would be a quick recovery, because labor understands what it is all about...
...next day, the professors--Sidney Verba '53, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes and Patricia Limerick--told four members of the constitution committee during a breakfast meeting that because of a scheduling problem, the proposal most likely could not be reviewed by the entire Faculty until January. Even if the Faculty approved the document, it would be too late to include the $10 surcharge necessary to fund the council on students' term bills in time for the spring semester...
Seminars involve long days and heavy concentration. The day frequently begins with a breakfast discussion and ends with an afterdinner session. Says Arthur Fish-elman, a vice president of human resources for Revlon, who organizes between 75 and 100 study sessions annually: "These seminars entail enormously hard work and total involvement...