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...money, goes Lin's great-hearted reply. You can't go wrong here, as Mozart, Brahms and Gershwin will receive the breath of life from Lin's tenderly-stroked strings. Take a little bite out of the musical educational apple this Saturday at 8 p.m. at the formerly-of-Cocktail-Party- fame Winthrop House Junior Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREDITORIALS | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Will every male member of Congress please stand up and swear under oath that he has never had sex outside of marriage, never made a pass at a woman, never told a dirty joke in mixed company, never asked a subordinate to have a cocktail and never winked at anyone? You wanna see some perjury? PAT PARRISH Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 13, 1998 | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...sophisticated understanding of race relations. When she first began inspecting New Deal programs in the South, she was stunned to find that blacks were being systematically discriminated against at every turn. Citing statistics to back up her story, she would interrupt her husband at any time, barging into his cocktail hour when he wanted only to relax, cross-examining him at dinner, handing him memos to read late at night. But her confrontational style compelled him to sign a series of Executive Orders barring discrimination in the administration of various New Deal projects. From that point on, African Americans' share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eleanor Roosevelt | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

There is also an active effort to institutionalize relationships with student groups--there are more frequent meetings between Crimson editors and the executives of major clubs, and a bi-annual cocktail party for leaders of all campus organizations at The Crimson. Did your group send anyone to these events? There is another one coming up within a month. Be sure to check it out. The Crimson is also increasingly attaching beat reporters to particular student groups, especially minority groups like...

Author: By Kaustuv Sen, | Title: Reader Representative | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...enough to life to tap the comic angst of the human condition. Watch, and you'll see one from each of the major office types: the tightly coiled executive producer (played by Miguel Ferrer of Twin Peaks), who humors Freundlich with drunken promises of future anchordom written on a cocktail napkin; the booker (Sanaa Lathan), who reports that the Pontiff is unavailable but she has on hold the guy who shot him. There's Gale, who ridicules Freundlich's melodramatic pauses but turns down an on-air spot with another network because it is not as dedicated to journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: News Nuns and Media Monks | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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