Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grizzled old Westerner stares longingly at the Gila monster. Reaching slowly and cautiously down, the prospector has the lizard shot right out of his hand. "You peckerwoods just raised hell with our supper," he complains as two grungy rounders advance on him. "It's just like you said, Hogue," says one, "there's enough water for two but not for three." They rob him of his canteen and leave...
...comments that should encourage anyone who has ever done battle with organic chemistry. "The course of organic reactions, like that of true love, does not run smooth." It is reassuring to learn that, at 15, the future president of Harvard, then a Roxbury Latin schoolboy, could not even spell supper or business. And he does not spare himself an occasional joke at his own expense. Bernard Baruch, meeting him in 1942 at Washington's Carlton Hotel to begin work on a synthetic-rubber study, surveyed Conant's fox face and spartan, wire-rimmed glasses and instantly announced: "Well...
...coercively" as the norm of doctrine. The Bible is vaguely described as the "unique authority," which "witnesses to God's revelation," rather than God's written word. The church will allow both infant baptism and believers' baptism, the latter to include confirmation. The Lord's Supper of the "Church Uniting" will be open to anyone now admitted to Communion in any Christian church...
...entertained by Pianist Rudolf Serkin in the white and gold splendors of the East Room, where 22 of Wyeth's paintings will be on display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their supper at a party for someone else. Under the new dispensation, the supper will be given to honor the artist himself. Nixon gave Duke Ellington a 70th birthday party last spring, more recently invited Comedian Red Skelton to inaugurate a series of "Evenings at the White House." The Wyeth show and dinner...
...only surprise that evening was supper-freshly killed gazelle, plus a vintage Bordeaux and chilled Mercier 1962 brut. The wines had been air-dropped by helicopter. Garros was rather embarrassed. "To be effective," he says, a legionnaire "must be cold, hungry and miserable. Luxury kills faster than bullets...