Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most families have just one or two rooms, even though the only common domestic machines seem to be radios and sewing machines. Though as guests we always got sumptuous food, ordinary Chinese food is probably a good bit simpler than American. A lot of people eat at least one meal a day in a commune or factory cafeteria, and on hot days you see people who've brought bowls of food outside, especially early in the morning. The restaurants seem to do better at night. And there are day-care centers and grandparents--the retirement age for most people seems...
...Faculty Club--the meatless days plan does not insure any fundamental change in eating habits. No plan can do that, short of policing every mouthful eaten in every dining hall in the University. One thing that could easily be changed, however, is the amount of food wasted at every meal, simply by decreasing the size of servings...
...question is how many other students would like the Food Services to consider those kinds of meals. White concedes that he is not "100 per cent satisfied" with his diet and that it was not easy to "abandon 20 years of a certain way of eating." But, he adds, "You have to wean yourself away from the idea of a meat dish, a vegetable dish and a starch dish at every meal...
Both White and Mayer were encouraged by the response to last Thursday's fast--in which 2200 students participated--and see it as an indication that students are concerned about the world food situation. But there is a difference between passing up one meal and making a fundamental change in eating habits, and it is not yet clear how far students are willing to go. Even if they are ready to take the step to meatless days, the plan is not an automatic solution to the food crisis. There remain the enormous problems of transporting grain from rich countries...
...stifle it. In the first of the three movies, it's Christmas Eve. The snow comes down gently, as it should, the Seine winds placidly in the story-book background. Some diners-out offer an old bum money to watch them eat, so as to add savor to their meal with a reminder that progress--which they like as little as Renoir does--hasn't leveled all distinctions yet. The bum pockets the leftovers from their meal, shows up some patronizing rich folks who think they know all about poor people, waltzes through an imaginary chateau with his old flame...