Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business executive. His brisk ways may occasionally irritate some Europeans (who make up a majority of the center's 336-man staff), but he also displays a democratic touch. He consults with his colleagues more than "Visser" did, has worked hard to improve his French, often casually takes lunch with other employees in the center cafeteria...
Such complaints are not easy to deal with, and often they tend to overshadow more mundane concerns that may be even more important to students. A coed lunch hour? A new cafeteria menu? Trunks for boys too modest to swim naked in the pool? Students at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn-a ghetto school suffering from all the usual sociological ills-demanded such reforms recently and got them, as the New York Times reported last week. In fact, Dr. Leonard Gelber, the principal, credits much of the present calm at Bushwick to a "human relations" committee of students, teachers...
Sylvia, the office supervisor, and Paul, the new employee, are on stage. In terms of action they enter and reenter, eat lunch, and wait to leave at five. Absolutely dull human beings. Except that they live and think just like all of us, so we have to be interested. We cannot term ourselves excruciatingly dasman...
...Stopped? Well, I should say, was greatly curtailed. Another cut in our funds came in 1964 after the civil rights bill had been passed. At that point, many people said 'Hallelujah! The ball game's over. The black man is equal. He can buy a hot dog at a lunch counter...
...skeptical now about some of the legislative advances made in civil rights. "The victories we won four or five years ago were victories in the South. They were also victories for the black middle class, and they are not the majority of blacks. The right to eat at a lunch counter means very little to someone living in Harlem. For him there has been no improvement in the last ten years. For him segregation has increased in schools and residential areas. He feels like a man running up a down escalator...