Word: sat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diplomatic Illness. What with the immense diversity of the Moslem world, the delegates had trouble joining one another just to talk. In the gaudy ballroom of the government-owned Rabat Hilton sat such disparate types as Saudi Arabia's conservative King Feisal, the moderate Shah of Iran and Algeria's strongman Houari Boumedienne. Host Hassan neatly averted the problem of sitting alongside an old enemy, Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, by having his placard lettered "Kingdom of Morocco." That enabled him to move down seven places at the alphabetically arranged table...
...source of all this friendliness was the encounter sessions. Everybody attended three a day. They sat in a circle for hours scrutinizing each other. They asked mean, menacing questions like, "Why are you being such a phony, Janet?" They aired sentiments like, "Ann, I love you no matter how s-y you are." They cried and constantly embraced one another for saying something that was especially hard to say. The faculty members had to participate in the same way-be completely frank about how they saw themselves in life, about their personal backgrounds, divorces and problems with their wives...
...happen that way. I wanted it to happen, but it still seemed an injustice. It's sad when Holy Cross loses a football game, because it means that they've just lived the whole week before for nothing. A three-man Holy Cross contingent sat next to me in the press box Saturday, and I really felt guilty that Harvard won. "I'm not hanging around that campus tonight," one of them said. "It'll be horrible there...
Following the meal, cups of tea and some cigarettes, we went to the schoolroom. For several hours we immersed ourselves in loud and joyous music. People from the trailers on the hill drifted in and sat down to listen. At half past twelve. Donovan said it was time to quit because the next day was Sunday. We dritted back to our various beds...
...hours we just sat and talked, sipping coffee. Once in a while Donovan would try out his banjo. He talked of his plans for the community of the garden, of raising chickens at the schoolhouse .... of bringing up movies to show on Sunday nights...