Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decrees German to be French and Argentina to be imperial Spain. A Huxleian world in which sexual indulgence has resulted in a "genitocracy" is suddenly cooled off by Nosex, a drug that turns lovemaking into drudgery. Sex as a recreation and mainstay of the economy is replaced by eating, with its own pornography and taboos. People who eat fruit while kneeling, for example, are branded perverts...
Elaine's, as even people in Peoria know, is that raffish gin mill on Manhattan's Upper East Side where the sleeker elements of publishing and broadcasting gather to eat roadhouse food and trade gossip. Over the years, journalists have grown into Hollywood-gauge celebrities, and Elaine's has now become so chic, so select, so humid with status and power, that some people would kill for a good table...
...ostensibly Harvard Food Services provides standardized fare across the University. On a given evening, you should be able to eat the same meal at Currier House as at Adams or Kirkland or Mather...
Another group, the Visiting Overseers Committee, also provides Weissbecker with a monthly rating on the dining halls. This group has the advantage of an objective membership, none of whom attend Harvard. They are local parents of Harvard students, who eat at undergraduate dining halls several times each month and submit a report of their findings to Weissbecker. He said they, too, have not remarked on any disparities in the quality of the food among Houses, but he refused to disclose the names of the committee's members...
Kieley added because of Adams' "good food" and proximity to the Yard, it was necessary to limit the number of interhouse diners. Only 45 students from other houses may eat at Adams during each meal...