Word: grilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty luncheon. Logically, of course, the function of intermediary between Faculty and student should belong to resident tutors or House Committees; but the tutors are often too hung up in their own little world of grad school professionalism, while House Committees often limit their duties to maintaining the evening grill. The Gill Committee recently concluded that a senior should not be forced to remain on-campus if he is willing to pay his share of administrative expenses. Ideally, seniors should not want to move off campus except in rare circumstances. Mather House may partially ease the problems of over-crowding...
...dining room for the entire house, on the lowest level, which will look onto a central courtyard, as well as the two outer ones. Next to the dining room there will be a grill room, open during non-dining room hours...
Flanked by a sleazy bar and grill and a dusty antique-and-junk shop, the tawdry tenement at 169 Avenue B on Manhattan's Lower East Side is typical of the area. Decaying plaster and peeling paint festoon its dark blue hall ways, and a flight of creaky wood stairs leads down to an oppressively low-ceilinged cellar that reeks of dog droppings and rancid garbage. A single naked light bulb illuminates the grimy heating pipes, the cockroach-scampered walls, and piles of loose, whitewashed firebricks from the building's boiler. It hardly seems the place...
...Grill. Priests see many reasons for the decline in frequency of confessions. One cause is the emphasis in the postconciliar church on the primacy of conscience-which means that lay Catholics are now far more certain of themselves as to whether or not they have sinned. "I used to consider anger a sin," says one Los Angeles housewife who goes to Communion frequently, although she has not been to confession since Christmas. "But now I simply don't feel guilty about yelling at the kids." Another is the repugnant medievalism of confessional practice-lining up before a dark, grilled...
...townspeople accept the servant girl's disappearance, but the sister does not. She begins to grill her stepbrother, who hysterically runs to his parents for aid. To ensure her silence, the father consents to let her marry a man whom she loves-and he despises. At the Greek fete, as Anestis drunkenly dances in celebration of his stepsister's wedding, the servant's body mysteriously rises to the water's surface and begins floating to shore, bringing with it the dissolution of the house of Canalis...