Word: buffet
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...social engineering. While Harvard can strive to offer as diverse and variegated and undergraduate population as possible through its admissions and curriculum, it cannot cross the line into the regions of individual choice and preference to force-feed diverse experiences on its students. Like a well thought-out buffet, there should be something for everyone but not everyone has to taste everything. And, by the same token, the College cannot admit people in part because they are musicians and athletes and not expect these characteristics to spill over into their social life and choice of friends...
...guarantee of lifetime job security. To publish with such laudatory notices could provide insurance against perishing in the limbo of the untenured. But tenure never materialized. Instead, Abraham became caught up in a running storm of accusations about his book. The charges, ranging from sloppiness to fraud, continued to buffet him a fortnight ago at the American Historical Association convention in Chicago, where he found himself walled in by controversy. Commented A.H.A. Executive Director Samuel Gammon: "It's almost impossible to get involved and be neutral...
...apolitical by law, and to 500 members of Congress, some of whom became so temporarily for the occasion. Democratic Congressman Thomas Downey, recalling that party sustenance in Jimmy Carter's White House consisted of white wine and finger food, surveyed this year's full-service bar and buffet of roast beef and fettuccini approvingly. "One nice thing about Republicans," he allowed, "is that they are not afraid to spend money...
That night the wake had some gaiety about it. The buffet tables were heaped with ham, turkey, macaroni casserole, tomato aspic and lasagna. David's coffin stood in the drawing room. The guests reminisced about David's brighter sides. Ethel was composed, perhaps because, as a friend says, "she believes he went right up there with his father...
When the meal is ready the chef calls in the other students by ringing a bell or by blowing loudly through a conch shell, as they do in Jordan J. The evening's chef places the meal on a counter buffet style and students serve themselves, then take their plates back to a long table set against one wall of the room...