Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chalmers also sees the House courses as paying dividends in General Education beyond simple diversity; he hopes they can structure and improve the informal general education that a House provides naturally. Chalmers characterizes House general education as a dinner table conversation, "people talking to one another, the interchange of ideas and points of view, even of ignorance." He continues, "We might be able to make this general education more effective by structuring it, and give it more depth, more challenge, by making it a course for credit." Here it seems, is the chief advantage of a House course...
Returned volunteers will man booths, answer questions, and hand out applications daily in libraries and Harkness Commons, and will eat dinner in all the Houses one evening next week...
...things he can't stand, Hunt brought the show to the ball. At his Fete de Fevrier, a small social for 600 to raise funds for his Foundation of Modern Art, he arranged to have the U.S. premiere of the film souffle, Made in Paris, held right after dinner in the New York Hilton's Grand Ballroom. Over their coffee and tea, Salvador Dali and the rest of his friends settled back to watch Ann-Margret tumble in love with Louis Jourdan in the film, which was not such a ball after...
...erroneously been put into the program. He had not played it in two years. With scarcely a shrug, he retired to a piano backstage to brush up. By concert time he had it down pat, and during the performance he played it faultlessly. Later, after the inevitable post-concert dinner party in the suburbs, Rubinstein decided to hire a limousine for the 200-mile return trip to Manhattan. "Let's do it!" he cried. "It will be an adventure...
...first met him at a private dinner in London when he was the Prince of Wales. I was in a very good mood that evening and amused him very much. He wouldn't let me go; he took me to two clubs and to the theater. At 3 o'clock in the morning, he said suddenly, 'I don't know much about music, but I hear you're very good. Would you mind playing something?' I couldn't say no to the Prince of Wales, so we drove up to St. James's Palace and went into a drawing room...