Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Work Program Evaluation Committee, a Radcliffe committee which has been working under the direction of Susan S. Olson, Dean of Residence. This committee strongly recommended that Radcliffe Houses be allowed to retain sit-down meals part of the time. For example, in East House, Cabot Hall might serve only buffet and Whitman Hall might serve sit-down meals, at least on interhousing nights. "Nobody wants to lose the personal flavor of the dining atmosphere," Miss Olson said. The recommendations of this committee will be presented to RGA March 31 for final discussion and approval...
Radcliffe girls had mixed reactions to the new plan, Lucy M. Candib '63 expressed the most common opinion when she said "Although buffet meals are more efficient and will make meals speedier for everyone it would tend to be barbaric if there were no opportunity for sit-down meals." Another sophomore said she thought "much better conversation gets going when you have buffet meals...
Wolf Von Eckardt, architectural critic for the Washington Post, complained that the extension would completely obliterate the soaring vision of the great dome, leave it sitting on a puffed-out base like a "wedding cake on a big buffet table." Von Eckardt noted that damaged walls have been repaired -without extension-in far older monuments such as London's St. Paul's Cathedral and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Despite such criticism, Congress appears taken with Stewart's idea, shortly before adjournment voted him $330,000 for detailed plans and a scale model of the "new" Capitol...
...When it was over, the President mounted the stage. "I have a midnight deadline," he said. "They're calling a curfew on me." While the others went on to the White House for a buffet dinner and dancing, Lyndon and Lady Bird whisked off in a Cadillac limousine, made it to Bethesda 20 minutes ahead of the curfew...
...exclusive that the public couldn't get a peek.* Outside the Dove, midnight strollers stopped and gawked through the windows until Secret Service men had to line up in a barricade to keep the celebrity watchers at bay. By 1:45 a.m., there was a buffet-smoked salmon, paté de foie gras, French pastries, goulash and spaghetti. Then everyone went back to dancing and drinking. Jackie left by 2:45, but the party swirled on until...