Word: sit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie "based on" a best-selling novel usually had the blurb: "You've read the book; now see the movie." Mary McCarthy's The Group has definitely been read (certainly Chapters 2 and 6 at the very least) and on the assumption that the public was willing to sit through two hours and forty-five minutes of a dramatized Eight Little Vassar Graduates and How They Grew, Hollywood went ahead. The surprise ending to this familiar pattern is that they've not only turned out a faithful rendering of that interesting tome, but have in fact surpassed it. The Group...
...Hoax." The publicity was what nettled Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, target of the protest for not having acted on the campers' requests for $1,356,000 in housing and training grants. Said OEO Spokesman James Kelleher: "They can sit in the park until Christmas, but we're not going to provide funds for something that's a hoax...
...draw up some stiffer amendments calling for total mandatory sanctions that would be enforced mainly by the British. Growing more impatient by the hour, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg met with British Representative Lord Caradon and delegates from nine other member nations, and the group staged a 61-hour sit-in in the Security Council chamber in an effort to get Keita to call the meeting. When it finally convened at week's end-40 hours later than Britain requested-the pro-British majority carried the day, and the limited sanctions were approved. That left the next move...
...Radcliffe Government Association has decided that each Radcliffe House may retain a number of sit-down meals a week, although beginning next fall almost all of the meals will be served buffet style. The exact number of sit-down meals and other details of the new eating arrangements will be determined this spring by committees to be set up in each House...
Susanne Wilson '67, president of the RGA expects that the House committees will choose one dining room in each House to serve sit-down meals on interhouse nights. The other dining rooms will serve buffet meals every night. Under the current system, all Radcliffe dining halls serve five sit-down meals a week...