Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Researchers who worked on the story (Dorothea Bourne, Raissa Silverman and Linda Young) moved through the New York City pattern -with Raissa's evening reflecting the spirit that animated New Yorkers during the blackout. She had invited four friends to dinner at her tenth-floor apartment. When darkness hit, she phoned, advising them not to come, and invited the neighbors, who were drinking coffee in the hallway by candlelight, to come to dinner...
...multitone door chimes or the intercom system, not the Danish dining-room chandelier or the bedroom clocks, not the hair dryer or the electric blankets, not the can opener or the carving knife, not the toothbrush or the razor. Not even the electric-eye garage door. For dinner, the Robbinses had charcoal-broiled steaks grilled over a primitive backyard barbecue...
Everywhere Meg went, in fact, a varied assortment of the nation's own version of noblemen and -women were eager to greet her. In San Francisco, Hello, Dollyl's Carol Channing showed up for an English-Speaking Union luncheon, and Bullfight Expert Barnaby Conrad graced an exclusive dinner given by Socialite Whitney Warren atop Telegraph Hill. Down at the Bistro in Beverly Hills, the banquet list of Hollywood aristocrats included Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye and a couple of Queen Elizabeth's loyal subjects named Burton. Margaret promptly upset her security guards in San Francisco...
...cranberry. At first confined to New England, and mainly to Cape Cod, as a diet staple and profitable source of income, the cranberry gradually conquered the holiday tables of the nation. This month, when Americans buy more cranberries than at any other time of the year, no Thanksgiving dinner will be considered complete without them. The most important fact about the $54 million cran berry industry, however, is that its health no longer depends on just the traditional holiday trade; cranberry products have grown into year-round sellers that compete with other foods for everyday...
...Christian ethics department, is also concerned with ending segregation. But Adams views the racial and religious conflicts as examples of the more general problem of separation and alienation. To illustrate the point, he tells a story about two graduate students who found themselves seated next to each other at dinner. "My field is mathematics, what's yours?" one asked. "New Testament," the other replied. At that point the conversation ended...