Word: snacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thomas E. Crooks '49, the new Master of Dudley House said that the change "had some advantages." These he gave as being a more convenient location, a better kitchen and grill, and more ample facilities including a large and small dining room, three common rooms, a snack bar, and a game room...
Guillermou has a certain point: words are themselves ideas that shape a people's self-image. French purists are thus aghast at the eat-and-run tone of le snack-bar as opposed to the civilized Gallic pace of le cafe. The Franglais word teen-ager is rebellious worlds apart from the dutiful jeune fille. The traitorous notion that "American is the only living language," cries Linguist Etiemble, will lead straight to what he calls, in ironic Franglais, "I' American way of life...
...parietal hours, Watson suggested that a union might ease recent parietal problems somewhat. Students ought to have a place where they can be completely free to do what they want, he said, adding that the Houses cannot serve this need. He suggested that the center include a bowling alley, snack bar, and swimming pool, and proposed that dances might be hold there on weekend nights. A married couple would serve as attendants, Watson said...
...Leftovers. The microwave ovens will never take over in restaurants that consider a meal something of an art as well as very much of a commodity; they sell best where speed and convenience count more than cuisine. Many restaurants, hotels, motels, hospitals, factory cafeterias, railroad dining cars, snack bars and hamburger stands are now turning to high-speed electronic ovens -and the ovens are even being installed in vending machines that serve hot sandwiches. Such electronic giants as General Electric, Raytheon, Litton Industries and Tappan are in the field, competing with at least three smaller firms. Sales...
Along the way to the happy ending, several scenes are stolen by a disarming cinemoppet named Claire Wilcox. Claire, 8, plays a food faddist who hates to mix up her victuals. To make a snack, she lines up four plates on the table, puts bread on one, lettuce on another, tuna on a third, mayonnaise on the fourth. Then she starts nibbling from each plate in sequence. "It's a sandwich," she explains, "only the food isn't touching...