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...marveled at my continental philosophy course. But while I’d chosen it because reading the great minds of the 20th century seemed fundamental, she simply exclaimed: “That’s wonderful! You’ll always have something fabulous to talk about at cocktail parties!” Before our exchange I hadn’t deluded myself that my views on Derrida and Foucault would ever change the world, but I did believe I was pursuing something less mundane than cocktail party fare. I was crest-fallen. Where was the appreciation for the humanistic...
Thus, while many prepare to become scientists and businessmen, I know all I’m doing is preparing myself for life as a cocktail party. Since destitution is not high on my list, I console myself with the knowledge that refuge can always be sought in law school. Later, I will meet up with my former humanities peers to reminisce about the times we studied the Oresteia, Mark Rothko and panoptic power discourse. It will be wonderful. Assuming, of course, that our memory will be good enough to still retain anything we studied in these distant college days...
...subjected to a lot of attention. Nancy, 83, a very proper widow who had just arrived at an upstate New York senior residence, recalls casually accepting a ride one fall afternoon from a fellow resident, a lively gent who wanted to show her the countryside. The next evening at cocktail hour, Nancy was taken aside and told in no uncertain terms by another widow that the man was already taken. "I thought I was back in a high school locker room," recalls Nancy, astonished by the woman's aggressiveness. Sexual games among the senior set can also have a happier...
...reality aside (as the President and Congress seem to have done). Does starving the beast make sense even in theory? Supply-side economics comes with a lot of intellectual paraphernalia, such as that famous Laffer Curve, drawn on a cocktail napkin. It may be nonsense, but at least it's clever nonsense (as Tom Stoppard once put it--though not about supply-side economics). Starve the beast, by contrast, is not a theory or even an assertion. It is barely more than a wish...
...national debt. All you have to believe is that every time President Bush gives the country a dollar in new tax cuts, the country shows its appreciation by spontaneously knocking a dollar off its demands for government spending. And if you buy that, I've got an old cocktail napkin I'd like to sell...