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Word: dinners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Galbraith would disagree vehemently. "If there are differences of opinion," he said at last week's Roosevelt dinner, "there should be men to represent them." The fact is that while there are more than enough men to criticize U.S. policy in Viet Nam, few have spoken so clearly and responsibly as Galbraith, or searched so hard for a viable way out. "I want to change things," he says. "I want to see things happen. I don't want just to talk about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Great Mogul | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...After dinner at home, sometimes with students, he reads still more, gives a speech or, on rare occasion, throws or attends a party. He was perhaps the most visible guest at Truman Capote's lavish bal masque in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in 1966, dancing for a while with a candelabrum, then tossing it around, quarterback style, with George Plimpton. "I would say," says Capote, "that he was rather flamboyant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: The Great Mogul | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Charles André de Gaulle, who never accepts dinner invitations to foreign embassies, had made an exception. Together with his wife Yvonne, the President of France sat down at a ceremonial banquet in the 18th century Hótel de Beauharnais, the palace in which German ambassadors to France have lived for most of the past 150 years. The banquet had a double purpose: to celebrate the return of the palace, seized by the French at the end of World War II, and to set the mood for this week's visit by Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and Foreign Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: The Ravensburg Incident | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...Would it be so difficult to allow this to be institutionalized? No doubt some students would wish to continue paying the full price and eating all their meals in the dining hall. But could it not be arranged to allow for those who wanted to buy just lunch and dinner, or (for Cliffies, say) just breakfast and dinner? Or even those who wanted to buy none...

Author: By Marc Gerzon, | Title: Living in Harvard Houses | 2/15/1968 | See Source »

Members of the Resistance, like recently arraigned graduate student Michael Ferber, also work through the BDRG office. In fact, the only continuing Resistance activity, a Monday night dinner, is held at the home of Harold Hector, Jr., one of BDRG's three paid employees...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: How to Beat the Draft Legally (and illegally) | 2/12/1968 | See Source »

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