Word: chats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...various subjects of discussion are much the same as those of any Harvard dining hall: comparing savings banks, rating the previous night's dinner, talking about upcoming parties. But every so often, an anomaly breaks through the chit-chat. "Are you still compiling compilers, or are you indexing indexes?" "Aren't you ignoring some fundamental premises of feminist criticism?" "You're in bargaining theory at Minnesota? Do you know..." "I turned down three job offers to do this. And I'm still not going to stay all the way through--I'm leaving a year early to join the Harvard...
...emphasize his point, he relates an anecdote about athletic director John P. Reardon. Two years ago--in the middle of the Crimson's six-game losing streak--Reardon had a little chat with the team, telling them that he was concerned about their image, and said that it was alright for Harvard's football players to be friends with cellists...
Reagan last week finally called Haig and Allen to a private chat in the Oval Office. The President firmly lectured the two adversaries for an hour, insisting that the bickering must stop. It was a disservice to him and the country, he said, and the two top players must control themselves and their staffs. Haig and Allen promised to keep each other better informed of their thoughts and intentions, to "roundtable" policy options, as Reagan likes...
...Gance portrays the Revolution as the necessary precondition to the ascendence of the man who will realize the fate of the nation. The Revolution is the "forge" France must pass through. The shadows of dozens of pikes parade across a wall in Napoleon's room. Robespierre and Saint-Just chat about whom to execute during the Terror. A florid Danton pours forth impassioned speeches, while Marat, played by Antonin Artaud, looks as if he has walked out of David's painting complete with a towel around his head. In these types of scenes the depth of Gance's vision...
...Reagan that "we have enough budgetary problems, so I hope you don't make us spend more for arms." And, wonder of wonders, Reagan's advisers reported that the President did not bring up the much contested plan to sell AW ACS planes to Riyadh in his chat with Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia (see following story...