Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself has damaged his standing with liberals and the Washington press corps, brought upon him accusations that he is empty of genuine convictions, a man with a grey flannel mind. Only last week Symington set out to contradict that judgment by canceling his scheduled speech at a state Democratic dinner in Little Rock, Ark. when he learned that Negroes present would be seated at segregated tables. It was quite a decision for a man who depends heavily on palatability to the South to help him capture the presidential nomination...
...delegation--eight men and four women--stayed in groups of two at the Business School, Divinity School, Adams House, Kirkland House, Bertram Hall, and Comstock Hall during their stay, and after the first night two or more of them would be taken out to dinner or invited to a home by a different person each night...
...wild passions and jungle instincts will prevail. Thus, although students may host women in their rooms from 4-7 p.m. every weekday, nights are another thing entirely. Even on Friday, women must be on their way by 8 p.m., which gives a normal person hardly enough time to digest dinner...
...mushroom exhibition in Paris, a bridge-playing composer in "the loony bin") to the piano and electronic music of Fellow-Composer Tudor. The result is new, all right, and even engaging in spots, but for the most part it will remind the first listeners of a dyspeptic after dinner speaker talking through an electrical storm into a TV set with a faulty tube...
...whole episode has the look of merely trying to keep up with the times. Jefferson, Miss, (really Faulkner's home town of Oxford) sees dramatic changes after World War II, but the comments on housing developments, new cars and the Negro problem sound tacked on, like dutiful after-dinner small talk...