Word: brunch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is] senior night at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals show, the senior soiree, champagne brunch, senior sleepout, etc," Zingher wrote in an e-mail message...
...House of Blues touts its Sunday Gospel Brunch as a "foot-stomping, soul-stirring non-denominational celebration featuring local and national gospel performers." Savor the Southern cuisine presented buffet-style by Chef Michael Monks. Advance tickets are available by calling 497-2229, but walk-ins are welcomed as well...
Host more guests and professors for dinners and discussions in the Houses. The Senior Common Rooms (SCR), the loose network of professors and visiting scholars affiliated with each House, are grossly underutilized. Students never meet most of these luminaries; the few accessible ones pop in for an occasional Sunday brunch. Why not have SCR members lead discussion panels on interesting issues of the day or give general talks about their fields of research? Also, when SCR members host prominent visitors to their departments, perhaps they could invite those guests to the House for dinner or discussion...
...This mentality extends far beyond the terminals. We don't have time to make do with anything slower than a T-1 connection. We can live virtual lives. Something tells me undergrads weren't pulling out their planners 25 years ago to pencil in Sunday brunch with their roommates. We hear the casualties of the computer age during exam time--with those who can no longer think sequentially and long for a word processor to help them organize their thoughts. Never mind love--there's no time for anything. Off to the gym, off to coffee, off to call...
...other hand, the commercials infuriate me. The last thing I want to see after eating a heavy brunch is an innocent, impoverished child. It makes me feel guilty. And it also gets me thinking. There are millions of starving children in the world, and while we all sympathize with them, is their welfare really our direct responsibility? Moreover, will $1 really save a child's life? And how do we know these organizations are reliable? Most important, is it immoral of us to ignore the commercial? By switching the channel, are we responsible for some poor child's death...