Word: restaurante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT, by Anthony Powell. The fifth installment of The Music of Time, in which Britain's most delicate and coruscating social Geiger counter moves through the class shambles of the late 30s.
All he wanted was a sandwich and a cup of tea while his bus made a brief stop in Richmond, Va. But Bruce Boynton, a law student at Washington's Negro Howard University, wanted to eat his snack in the white section of the bus terminal's segregated...
With an almost audible sigh of relief, the Court ignored the constitutional issues, confined itself to the Justice Department's argument, and last week decided by a vote of 7 to 2 that the terminal restaurant, even though privately owned, was an integral part of the busline's...
So anxious was the Supreme Court to make sure that its decision would not reach too far, it took the trouble to specify about limitations. "We are not holding," wrote Justice Hugo Black for the majority, "that every time a bus stops at a wholly independent roadside restaurant the act...
"Another big problem," Schreiber explained, "is to give these youngsters cultural experiences of the sort most middle class kids get from their families. We take them to museums, concerts, plays and sometimes we even get the conductor or lead actor to talk to them. We try to make each visit...