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Lynne Parshall '76, one of those hospitalized, said last night she had eaten just the scallops and the shrimp out of the newburg and that the scallops were "mushy and not well cooked." She said she ate around 6 p.m. Wednesday...
When begun in 1929, the institution of high table dinners--which literally were eaten at a table elevated above the rest of the dining room--brought the President, distinguished guests and faculty to Lowell to sup in dinner jackets and starched shirts. The event came under heavy fire from students as being "grotesquely ridiculous," "an undemocratic display of starched laundry," and "one of the most forced and misplaced institutions ever established at Harvard." But the master at that time, Julian L. Coolidge, Class of 1895, who had been an opponent of the democratizing efforts of the House system, saw high...
...scheduled events, mainly meetings and appearances. Ford greeted or talked to more than 100 people, made two formal speeches outside the White House. He placed a dozen telephone calls beyond the premises, received at least as many, conducted literally countless confabs on the inner-office lines. Three meals were eaten, ablutions performed, family members counseled, six newspapers perused, four TV newscasts sampled, scores of memorandums absorbed. He did pushups, smoked, joked, shook hands in unrecorded but generous portions...
...kind of succinct, one-pointed blow that undercuts one's expectations of complexity. In that sense, what Oka calls "these utilitarian wrappings, these crystallizations of everyday wisdom" are elegant indeed. Problem: to pack one dried salt yellowtail in straw so that it can be unwrapped frugally and eaten over a period of time. It must keep up to six months, so some air must get to it but flies must not. The answer in Ishikawa prefecture is to sheathe it in straight wisps of straw and then bind it in straw rope like a corn husk, unwrap as much...
...Sizemore was out of a job a month after this book about him was published (the company cited "economic conditions") and cannot get another because of his black lung. (He can go on compensation--since 1969 he can, anyway--like the 230,000 who have enough of their insides eaten out to qualify.) He has been a miner for 36 years...