Word: meals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fans are more loyal to sandwiches than children. Their parents may feel that hot food on a plate is more nutritious than a fast cold meal, but children at school cafeterias can be observed making sandwiches out of everything, including spaghetti with meat sauce stuffed into hamburger buns, so they can eat quickly and have time to play...
...used to joke about gracious living, but it was quite pleasant to sit down and have a good meal," says Heywood, now a psychiatric social worker. "Harvard had those wonderful dining halls which looked elegant, but it was very uncivilized...
...people you have just met and begin a seemingly innocuous conversation about the state of the world. Pretty soon you learn not only that your tablemates hold views wildly different from your own, but also that they are offended and outraged by your opinions. In five minutes, a pleasant meal has deteriorated into a full-blown war of words...
Lichtman's second objection to the fast is that it is a conscience soother for pampered students who can go out for a meal and rejoice in their generosity. One counter to this point is that some of us actually do fast or even attend hunger banquets; the other being the pragmatic view that the approximately $4000 raised for Oxfam is $4000 more that is going to aid deprived people that would not be sent if Harvard did not hold the fast...
...last argument states that since the dining hall people "rip us off year after year" by charging us for meals we never eat, why miss this one? As one of the coordinators of the Harvard Food Salvage Project, I have had a unique opportunity to see all levels of the Food Services at work. While I would not say the dining services at Harvard are perfect, I feel that for the most part both the administrators and workers of the Food Services are trying hard to be efficient and effective. True, students miss many meals, but we are only charged...