Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talking to Joe MacDonald, you get the feeling that he may be right--that it may be possible to "turn on" the whole world. "Sure, we can turn on everybody, and I don't mean drugs," he said. 'Go back home and relate with your parents. Eat dinner with them. You don't have to turn them on to drugs. My parents don't take drugs, but that's all right. It doesn't make much difference. We know something that they don't know. We gotta help them...
Ambivalent Eater. Back home, however, Harris is in some disfavor. Though he will not have to run again until 1972, he has aroused the enmity of Oklahoma conservatives, who condemn his position on race and civil rights. Critics call him "politically ambivalent" because he "has lunch with Johnson and dinner with Bobby Kennedy"-which, occasionally, he does, and which is only one indication of his savvy, eupepsia and party loyalty...
...turned out to be a big hatstand with lots of hats; but before we started it, outside of discotheques, there was really no place to go that served good food and stayed open late." As he sees it, The Factory's main achievement has been "melding the dinner jackets and the blue jeans. You dig? No one is embarrassed; nobody cares." Brightening the ambiance no end is the fact that some of Hollywood's prettiest girls (who need not be members) show up in the briefest dresses, and dance the wildest steps. Said one new visitor: "The only...
...dinner in Eliot House last night, Finley informed his boys of the appointment, and cried "Floreat domus de Eliot" (Let Eliot House bloom). Heimert answered, "Following Master Finley will be like getting into the wake of the Queen Elizabeth in a rowboat." They then sat down with a bottle of Italian champagne...
Richler's basic weapon is the mace of reductio ad absurdum, which he wields with skill and ferocity. A publisher compiles a book that documents little acts of kindness shown by the Nazis toward Jews, and holds a benefit dinner for wives and children of deceased concentration-camp guards; a school play casts ten-year-olds in a staging of Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom; a teacher encourages the academic achievement of her boy students by rewarding them in an entirely extracurricular manner; a nun appearing on a Joe Pyne-style TV insult program is publicly reduced...