Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hickory Hill party. She was the mistress of a wacky ménage that included even more animals than children?Brumus, the huge Newfoundland of nippy disposition, the wandering armadillo that broke up tea parties, the pet hawk that once landed on Mrs. Averell Harriman's wig. She was the dinner-party cutup who once, in mock jealousy at the attention a high Government official was paying another woman, tossed a candleholder at him?to the obvious distaste of Jacqueline Kennedy, the regal sister-in-law with whom she had so little in common...
Ethel is no longer the prankster she was in days past, when she would string up a dummy parachutist in a tree by way of greeting General Maxwell Taylor, who parachuted into Normandy on Dday. But evenings at Hickory Hill are hardly occasions for quiet conversation. "After dinner, you never just sit around and talk, because she's not comfortable in that type of situation," says a friend. There is always an activity of some sort?charades, games of "who said that?" based on the day's news?or a movie in the playroom by the pool. A recent guest...
...There were servants, a swimming pool, riding horses, a 35-ft. yawl and another smaller sailboat (significantly named, by Ethel, Sink or Swim). The house was always crammed with the children's schoolmates and other visitors, and it was not unusual for 25 people to gather at the Skakels' dinner table...
Celebrating Chase's tenth anniversary last week, Rockefeller invited 290 artists from around the world to a "thank you" dinner atop the bank's 60-story skyscraper. A total of approximately 125 showed up, mostly New Yorkers, but including Hans Hartung from Paris, Sidney Nolan from London, Manabu Mabe from Brazil. West Germany's Heinz Mack prankishly mailed in a lifesize, cardboard-backed photograph of himself in black tie, folded so that it could-and did-sit down at table and listen to the speeches with the other guests...
...general lack of both consideration and communication at the most basic level was epitomized when the Faculty chose to postpone action on the Afro proposal in favor of going home to dinner...