Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of the Democrats' lack of enthusiasm for Carter, his political lieutenants, led by Chairman White and Administration Party Liaison Tim Kraft, tried to turn the miniconvention into an exercise in intraparty public relations, a sort of half-time pep rally. They took pains to prevent the gathering from breaking down into a cacophony of dissent, which is always a possibility when Democrats gather. White rigged the rules in an attempt to minimize debates on resolutions critical of Carter. But on the eve of the convention he made concessions to liberal groups, led by lameduck Minnesota Congressman Don Fraser...
...badges, buttons, sashes, brochures, luggage-strewn hotel lobbies, stackable ball room chairs, green baize tabletops, insulated plastic water pitchers, WELCOME banners, note-festooned message boards, firm handshakes, hearty guffaws, setups in the hospitality suite and dark circles under the eyes. The diagnosis: an insatiable urge to meet and greet, gather and blather with one's suppliers, customers, lodge members, old friends, perfect strangers, peers, inferiors and superiors. The cure: none yet discovered...
...important is the convention business that 117 U.S. cities employ professional staffs to attract meetings. New York City's Convention and Visitors Bureau has five traveling salesmen trying to persuade trade and professional groups to gather in the Big Apple. The Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau also has a field force of five convention hunters out plugging the Big Peach. Miami employs four to tout the Big Orange, while Waikiki sent a representative to Austria to bag the Lions International for the Big Pineapple...
...case, when, (if) any snow ever falls, and this year's model December 25th rolls around, the sins of past debauches will be long buried. And as people gather to celebate the birthday of a two thousand year gone heretical Jew, we can easily salve any conscience recoiling from yet another helping of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. After all, at least we're avoiding that spirit of Christmas' past that would demand the consumption of "broke broune, longe flouteurs and payne puff" as but one tenth of our Christmas cheer...
Classes begin tonight, and students gather their course materials and head for one of the center's classrooms. They are met for the introductory session by Jack Powell, a young Boston trial-lawyer who is moonlighting as a Kaplan instructor "to get up the dough for the mortgage on my house." Small talk and jokes are bantered back and forth, and one can't help but feel that he is back in high school again. The atmosphere has that same tentativeness that always used to mark the first day of class, when you would size up the teacher, and vice...