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Fascinated though she is by the irrational and the contingent, Josephine makes a determined effort to re-connect herself with the world that other people live in. As a convalescent, she takes a job and, reluctantly, attends a cocktail party given by an old school friend. But she cannot achieve anything beyond a momentary rapport with the guests; she penetrates the absurd triviality of their preoccupations all too readily and retreats, bewildered, convinced that the fault must lie within herself...
...detail. At her worst, in suggesting the heroine's relationship with her mother, Miss Dawson is merely competent, betraying perhaps an impatience to get the psychological background out of the way and concentrate on the crisis of Josephine's life. At her best, she approaches brilliance -- Josephine at the cocktail party, alternating between poetically condensed observation and fumbling inarticulacy; Josephine in her relapse, pouring forth a jumble of seemingly disconnected sentences that reveal the horror of her private world...
...town only three days after Katanga President Moise Tshombe was calling on his people to fight the United Nations troops with "poison arrows, spears, axes and picks." To smooth things over, Tshombe and some of his Cabinet ministers mingled pleasantly with U.N. officers at the U.S. consul's cocktail party honoring Democrat Dodd's arrival. But neither Tshombe nor anyone else could control the erratic, excitable Katanga soldiers who had been listening to the President's inflammatory speeches...
Bachelor in Paradise (M-G-M). He: "Isn't it a bit early for a cocktail?" She: "Early! It's April." That's what the script says, but it is plainly later than Bob Hope (who admits he is 57) and Lana Turner (who claims she is 40) like to think. In Paradise they are cast as a couple of gay young things in their middle 303, but the moving finger has inexorably written lines that contradict the ones they have to say. Their first fine rapture actually suggests a desperate last fling, their romantic moments sometimes...
...Cocktail Party Associates, the catering and bartending division of Harvard Student Agencies, will probably supply 5,000 worth of party assistance to Bostonians, suburbanites, and the University community this year...