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Other assorted oddities: a youngster by the baked brie plate slapped an invitation to a gala ball in my hand after shaking it. He looked twelve years old. The tickets were $250 each. The German consul-general and his lovely wife Anna described their other foreign posts. A quintillionth-generation Harvard sexagenarian discussed Canadian politics with startling insight. A former Harvard rugby player offered to hook up an undergraduate with his 'friend' in business...
...formal will center around two tents. The larger of these will house a 200' by 80' dance floor and feature the music of Lester Lanin's Orchestra, the swing band that played at the University's 350th gala celebration...
Indeed, the council members said they are making a concerted effort to draw professors to the gala...
...long ago I was at a gala dinner to mark an important anniversary. There were 50 Heads of State present, perhaps more, who came to honor the heroes and victims of the greatest war in human history...A slight chill went down my spine, for I could not help observing that one table had been singled out as being special and particularly important. It was a table for the big powers...The architect of that seating arrangement...was not guided by a sense of responsibility for the world, but by the banal pride of the powerful...
...their credit, the dancers are stronger in this piece than in any other in the program. It was tailor-made for the Boston Ballet to celebrate the company's 30th Gala Anniversary last April...