Word: cafeteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dogs and Potato Chips" testifies to the influence of pop art on craftsmen. Blown glass potato chips really have to be seen to be visualized. The idea of doing this subject in such an elegant and delicate media. complete with paper napkins, plaster milk, and on an ordinary cafeteria tray really strikes the literary more than the visual funny bone. And Arneson's gawky earthenware bathroom sink is so literary that it even has a punchline-the brown splotch in the bowl is labeled "hard to get out stain...
...Yale University, 47 students suspended for occupying the personnel office were reinstated on disciplinary probation for the rest of the year. The building seizure was the first in Yale's recent history; intended to make officials retract the firing of a black woman cafeteria employee, it worked. Said Dean John Wilkinson, head of the undergraduate discipline committee, explaining the students' reinstatement: "This time, and this time only, we decided to show mercy...
...Yale, S.D.S. members climaxed weeks of agitation against the university's alleged overworking of dining-hall employees. At issue was the case of Mrs. Colia Williams, a Negro cafeteria waitress. Offended by a student supervisor's rude remarks, she threw cranberry juice in his face and was fired for "due cause." Result: 200 protesters occupied the personnel office and held four officials. Following the guidelines of President Kingman Brewster's "riot scenario," Yale warned the activists to vacate or face suspension. While most obeyed, 47 stayed put and were expelled. As for Mrs. Williams, she was rehired...
...lighted and centrally air-conditioned. It also has a number of shortcomings. In a community that sends only 30% of its students to college, Sandy Run offers a rudimentary college-preparatory program (English, history, science, mathematics, French), but no vocational training. There is no gymnasium or athletic field, no cafeteria, and little audiovisual equipment. The auditorium has no stage. Library bookshelves are mostly empty. There are cheerleaders-but no teams to cheer...
...ENCYCLOPEDIA by Richard Horn. 157 pages. Grove Press. $4.95. The hapless love affair of hopeful Poet Tom (Americana) Jones and wealthy, bohemia-bound Sadie (Britannica) Massey is cross-referenced in brief, satirical, encyclopedic passages from ABORTION to zoo CAFETERIA. What you can't look up, you can't put down...