Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feels almost inclined to applaud the brazen insensitivity of last Wednesday's Conservative "Coming Out" Dinner. Here, under the guise of good-natured mockery, we are presented with an appropriation of the discourse of "coming out" that utterly disregards the real experiences of being a despised minority...
...Certainly at such a Harvard, it would be possible to engage in a campus-wide discussion about AIDS, particularly last Wednesday, World AIDS Day. Instead, at this Harvard, we had the monumentally vicious scheduling of the conservative dinner, providing an opportunity to reminisce about the bad old days of the Reagan administration...
...Last week's dinner could have been a jovial gathering of like-minded students celebrating their shared political beliefs. And the organizers could even have scheduled time for some aforementioned light-hearted whining about the Kremlin on the Charles. Instead, by calling the event a "Coming Out" dinner and scheduling it on World AIDS Day, those who organized the event demonstrated themselves to be not principled but rather inconsiderate and foolishly misdirected...
...event began with a soul food dinner from caterer Bob the Chef's. BMF President Shearwood "Woody" McClelland '00 described the event's origins in 1995 as part of BMF's efforts to "celebrate the achievements and accomplishments of all black women...
Last Thursday I sat at Thanksgiving dinner with my extended family, buried in food and conversation and enjoying the soporific effect of the sweet potato-marshmallow casserole. With the kids at the card table, the elders sprinkled around the periphery, I couldn't help noticing that my generation had become the core of our large family. Try as we might to delay the growing-up process, by marrying and having children late, my sisters, cousins and I have finally graduated from the kids' table. While that has its advantages (uncontested second helpings of pie, for instance), it also confirms...