Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through shirts. "We can sell anything that is transparent and purple," she says. New Yorkers do not care what color it is: tissue-thin voile shirts are turning up like daffodils all over the city. In Washington, D.C., a lady reporter turned heads at the White House correspondents' dinner with a bare-midriff, see-through pajama set. Being diplomatic (or missing the point), George Romney asked: "Who is the blonde with all the hair?" In San Francisco, where openwork-crochet tunics are favorite items, one girl showed up at the Bachelor's Ball with a midriff bare...
...Yorkers of the title are the Mannixes, members of a dwindling clan of well-to-do Jews, and their carefully tolerant gentile connections. The story begins in the 1940s at a political dinner given in honor of Judge Simon Mannix, a shrewd, large-minded man who has been "mentioned" for the Supreme Court. He is well sketched by the author, and one impudent touch is superb: Mannix has a deaf son, she relates, and thus has learned to lipread. To know what is being whispered at a testimonial dinner is to be an ironist, and Mannix...
...novel does come fitfully to life, usually in some transitional scene where the author is forced to view the society in which her New Yorkers still move. A wedding is done well; so is a smoothed-over gaffe at a dinner party and an old ballerina with her beauty in ruins but her vanity intact. The suspicion grows during the slow passage through this glum volume that it is not rightfully a psychological novel, but a strayed social one. It moves repeatedly in that direction, and always the author drags it back. That is her privilege, of course. Still...
...agency that served the meal was Seiler's Caterers, Inc., of Roxbury, the same catering service that handled the previous year's dinner. A similar incident also occurred three years ago at the 25th Reunion Dinner, again served at the Palmer Dixon courts. Although it could not be confirmed, several sources thought it was probable that Seiler's had also catered that event. As of Sunday evening, Seiler's could not be reached for comment...
...dinner there sometimes. Listen to the late night conversations in the dorms. Listen to the early afternoon conversations on the Radcliffe Quad. Meet a Cliffie. Find...