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...delivers a long and impassioned account of running with the Weathermen during the Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969; Jody Adams '69 writes movingly about the University Hall bust--"Inside, With Arms Linked, the Kids Awaited the End"--with fire and anger and sadness. "The Quest for the Cocktail Soul at Princeton," written in 1960, effectively reveals the sadism and bigotry of Princeton's "Bicker" process by which sophomores are elected to private eating clubs...
...three-quarters of the 40 students invited to New York, for an "on-site-visit" accept the offer. In New York, they spend one or two days talking to perhaps ten more managers and supervisors in the department in which they hope to work--and the are treated to cocktail parties, receptions, and nights on the town. "By this time," McCreery says, "we feel an individual has had the opportunity to formulate in his or her own mind whether, indeed, Exxon is the company for him or her--beyond that, there just isn't much...
...those rituals the clubs are loathe to abandon; they've been doing it since the days when somebody's valet lived in my Adams House room. Members page through the freshman register and locate faces, names and addresses which might fit into their club. Then they issue invitations to cocktail parties, eager to see what the new prospects will drink and what they'll bring on their arms...
...what is appropriate for almost every occasion, be it a barbecue on their California ranch (top-of-the-line cowboy garb), a press conference (Ron may be in plaid jacket and slacks, Nancy in a preppie blazer and skirt) or a fund-raising banquet (business suit for him, cocktail dress...
...baggy pants. On the other hand, Jack Kennedy's two-button suits (whose looser lines he adopted to disguise the back brace he often had to wear) set a fashion for two decades. Jackie's Halston-designed pillbox hats were as common as canapes at cocktail parties of the '60s. If the Reagan look does not incite the masses to clothe themselves likewise, it promises both verve and dignity in the White House. -ByMichaelDemarest. Reported by Douglas Brew/Los Angeles and Georgia Harbison/New York