Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...halfhearted pretense? There is a certain staginess to the place; the grounds and buildings, donated by a rich and eccentric old lady are too grand for the modest faculty and student body. In addition the donor has imposed some peculiar conditions-evening dress must be worn at supper, for instance-that have never matured to become traditions. Boys and masters repeatedly assure one another that Dorset really is a good school...
...evenings after supper I hate him least, when the rheum in his blind eyes looks less like weakness, an impassive twilight severity in his backbone. He sits alone as I am alone, feeling the heat of the sand warm the sun-fallen...
...duty that night were Lt. John O'Donoghue, Bob McCleery, John (Spike) Lawless, Fred (Bunky) Bokuniewicz, and Fred Ikels. They managed to make it through supper without being interrupted, but around 9 p.m. the calls started coming in fast...
Along with Mousse of Scallops, Poached Striped Bass, and Soupe de Poisson, the pair prepared a Sauce Gribiche, a variation on mayonnaise which contains mustard. "If you use the old-fashioned ball-park mustard, you get something that tastes like a church supper," Claiborne said...
Then came Baryshnikov. Gelsey had met him briefly on a 1972 tour with the City Ballet in Russia, and he had seen her perform there. During the summer of 1974, she went to Toronto to see Baryshnikov dance. At a supper afterward they hit it off. Sizing her up, the 5 ft. 6½ in. Baryshnikov remarked, "Hhmm, good partner, right size." A few days later Gelsey was back in New York, working at the barre, when she got a phone call from a member of Baryshnikov's entourage. Misha had just decided not to return to the Soviet Union...