Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bill Hunt was probably the best speaker in the movement. At Monday night dinners in the Arlington St. Church, he had his own circle around him. That was the one solid thing about the Resistance. It was a community. Every Monday night, the FBI agents with felt hats and over coats would cross the street from the Common and stand in front of the church. They'd stand by the entrance to the meeting room downstairs and aim umbrellas to you and take your picture, click. The women in the Unitarian church made dinner and about a hundred people...
...Otopeni Airport. By the time President and Mrs. Nixon stepped into the brilliant Bucharest sunshine, some 600,000 Rumanians had lined up to provide the warmest and most tumultuous welcome of Nixon's trip. The joviality continued into the evening, when Ceausescu put on a splashy state dinner in the marbled palace of Rumania's kings. Raising his champagne glass, Ceausescu toasted "the triumph of peace, this grand ideal of human beings on all continents." The President eagerly clinked glasses with his Rumanian host before launching into his own, similar speech. There was, besides the evening...
...Rumanian civil air agreement-none now exists-and to open formal discussions aimed at mutual extension of consular facilities. Most of the remaining time was spent discussing East-West relations, which both men are anxious to improve. In his toast to improving those relations during a state dinner at week's end, the President declared: "We are flexible about the methods by which peace is to be sought and built. We see value neither in the exchange of polemics nor in a false euphoria." In Nixon's precedent-breaking visit behind the Iron Curtain, very little of either...
Rose Kennedy's birthday on July 22 fell on the same day as Mary Jo's funeral, and the informal family dinner was held a few days later. In the rush of recent publicity, some reports gave her age as 80. She complains that a woman in her position can never keep her age a secret. But she wants the record straight. She is "only...
Chekhov once wrote of playwriting "in which people arrive, go away, have dinner, talk about the weather, and play cards. Life must be exactly as it is, and people as they are--not on stilts.... Let everything on the stage be just as complicated, and at the same time just as simple as it is in life." This is a prescription for utter naturalism; and, if followed exactly, it would yield only tedium...