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...knows a great deal about the University. He speaks of but does not name a certain Harvard professor of Comparative Literature who has a community-wide reputation for absent-mindedness and a penchant for sloppy dressing. He suggests also that if a list of the guests at a faculty cocktail party and a tally of their drinks could be rushed to the Harvard-M.I.T. computer center by 8 P.M., by 8:02 he could determine the exact pattern of conversation, argument, and sexual advances at the party...
...spread across the world, it was received everywhere with stunned disbelief. The Empress of Iran broke into tears, as did the President of Tanganyika, and countless anonymous men and women. Along Rome's Via Veneto grief sounded operatic. "E morto!" people called to one another, and at a cocktail party the guests put down their glasses and began to recite the Lord's Prayer...
...nairon sutokkingu (nylon stockings), the hittu parado (hit parade) and the popular magazines sekkuso sutori (sex stories). In showbiz, which is naturally fantazikku, starlets grapple with ojishon, kamera tesuto and doresu rihaasaru (audition, camera test, dress rehearsal). "Aimu sori," says the Japanese businessman as he breaks a kakuteiru (cocktail) date with his garufurendo (girl friend). He has time only for hassaru (hustle) and greater purodakuchibichi (productivity...
...Eisenhower years. "I started out having little attachés," Gwendolyn Detre de Sunny Cafritz, Hungarian-born wife of a wealthy Washington builder, once said, "and I worked my way up to the Supreme Court." But while Gwen could once corral several Supreme Court justices for her annual October cocktail party lately she has been getting none. Her chief rival, Perle Mesta, used to make up guest lists "like Noah, who invited something of everything into his ark " But Perle has sold her ark, a mansion called Les Ormes, to the Lyndon Johnsons, now lives in an apartment less suited...
...extras as it was a year ago. Connie Frances will go to a mixed party in Looking for Love. Robert Goulet and Robert Morse share a Negro secretary in His and His. Ossie Davis will appear as a Catholic priest in The Cardinal. Negro couples are guests at a cocktail party in The Out-of-Towners and are spectators in formal dress at a Paris art exhibition in What a Way to Go. Moreover, Wendell Franklin-the first Negro member of the Screen Directors Guild-is also the first to be assigned a film, assisting George Stevens on The Greatest...