Word: dine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entertain the irrational sort of fear is no way to spend our last days at Harvard (or even your first days). It is no way to spend the rest of our lives. So the next time Fear sidles up and takes a seat across from you in the dining hall, as he prattles on about staying "on track" and finding something to do "next year," interrupt him and ask, How was your day? Have you seen any good movies lately? Have you noticed the sunny weather? Or, if you're feeling really fearless, pick up your tray, push in your...
...eerie. Just getting the most coveted ticket in Washington--to dine with those two powerful heads of state--lent the evening an illusion of invulnerability: that all is right in the world because all is right at this moment. There was the President, charming and being charmed by the bicoastal Masters of the Universe: Steven Spielberg, Barry Diller, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, Tom Hanks, Ralph Lauren, John F. Kennedy Jr., Tina Brown, Anna Wintour, Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings. Bad luck seemed as far away as it must have seemed in the ballroom of the Titanic. How can anything be wrong...
...administration had created a space where students could, in the words of Knowles, "graze, rather than dine." And no wonder students didn't visit Loker once the $50 bribe ran out--if we wanted to graze or sit on unpadded chairs, Au Bon Plain is more centrally-located and serves better food at comparable prices. (You see, Catherine B. Loker made a mistake the Major had not; she trusted the administration to oversee the design and construction of a space for students...
...Passion according to Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. held a sort of Last Supper before his murder in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. Invited to dine at King's table were his "disciples," including Black Power activist Stokely Charmichael and several leaders of the Black Panther Party, including Cleaver herself. In a kitschy, if tongue-in-check scene, the prophet's mantle was passed from King to the apostolic Panthers, but instead of bread and wine, there were "hot peppers," the true food of revolutionaries...
Romance us, wine us, dine us, and be remembered by future Harvardians as the era of Supermen...