No bowls clanging, no laughter over the dinner table, no ticking or chiming of the clock-all was still.
I had grown up in a family that often discussed politics over the dinner table. The pros and cons of various solutions to society's problems generated fervent debate.
Hopefully, it may spill over the dinner and the medias' focus is gonna be what we need to get under the lame duck session.
And in other cultures, such as China, much of the real work of making deals actually often gets done over the dinner table.
When the child reaches adolescence, encourage him to read articles from major foreign newspapers on line and relate the contents for discussion over the dinner table.
Or there are murder dinner parties, at which groups of friends get together to solve a crime over the dinner table, using specially prepared information about their character and their whereabouts.