Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good, but no more so than the peace of empty days after a lifetime full of crowded ones. Indeed, the most touching sequence in the film is Clara's first night in the hospital. She wonderingly explores her spacious, airy room, sits down to savor a simple attractive meal in solitude, tucks herself between crisp sheets with nothing but a book for company. The contrast between this thought-provoking silence and the numbing intrusions on her spirit that we have witnessed in the film's opening sections could not be more vividly evoked. In a directorial career devoted...
...beneath the jargon and gossip, a serious as well as topical undercurrent can be felt. Should animals be killed to feed humans? In the long run, is the consumption of 10 Ibs. of grain to produce 1 Ib. of beef an equitable or sensible ratio? Is the meatless meal a fashion, an ideal or a specter? These were once the narrow concerns of Victorian freethinkers like George Bernard Shaw or of pop nutritionists like Adelle Davis. But suddenly, in many societies, the question of a high-protein vegetable diet has be come literally a matter of life and death...
...expenses included $560 for a dinner at Joseph's restaurant, $1371 in hotel and meal bills and $828 for liquor...
...part of this time, said last week in his top-floor University Hall office, as the chants of an anti-Gallo demonstration filtered in through the open window, "In the heady days of this place, there was a tendency among students to reject people who dropped in for a meal and the like. But that's not so anymore. Students are really not formidable...
Adams, Eliot and Kirkland Houses and the Yard voted in the referendum for a return to a meal plan without meatless days, but the other Houses supported the meatless alternative plan...