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...markedly individual styles. Their joint characteristics are frankness, sensitivity to the nerves and taboos of their host countries, an eagerness to listen as well as a marked capacity for eloquence, love of exercise and travel, impatience with the failures of U.S. society, and ill-concealed dislike of Embassy Row cocktail parties. In one of his books, Ed Reischauer says: "Diplomatic relations have grown out of the exchange of personal representatives between kings, and they still preserve some of the aristocratic aura of their origin. But diplomatic relations today are not really between individual rulers but between whole peoples of entire...
...describes Kennan, Reischauer (Japan), and Galbraith (India), as "three of the liveliest choices --and likeliest successes" among President Kennedy's 63 new ambassadors. "Their joint characteristics are frankness, sensitiveness to the nerves and taboos of their host countries, an eagerness to listen...and ill-concealed dislike of Embassy Row cocktail parties...
Readymade for the status-seeking Washington hostess who is worried lest her cocktail party fall flat: the You-Rent-a-Cocktail Party Crowd. Invented by Writer C.D.B. Bryan for the funny crew of a funny supper-club routine at the Captain's Table in Georgetown, the device is described thus...
...provide the people who arrive for the first half-hour of a cocktail party, since none of the invited guests come that early. Our people wear decorations, sashes, beautiful evening gowns, saris, and various other native costumes. They talk animatedly about politics. As the real guests arrive, the rented crowd fades away, leaving behind it matchbooks imprinted
...promise. Tirana has a TV transmitter that broadcasts to a total of 200 TV sets owned by party officials. Albanian workers patch holes in their trousers with bits of vulcanized rubber, but in the new "jet class" "the men wear Italian-cut suits, and the girls have flaring cocktail dresses...