Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning ... He and Troise and half a dozen of their friends were sitting around the café on a night like any other night, waiting for Boswell and Dr. Johnson to arrive, when the talk turned to the frantic trendiness of U.S. society. Go to a cocktail party, someone said, and everybody's talking about manipulating the money market, or parachute jumping, or that group therapy where everybody sits nude in a big tub of Wesson Oil. Yeah, said another citizen, there you are in your clean bowling shirt and they all want to go to the roller disco...
...cloning frogs for fun during the afternoon but at night they're all trying to bluff their way into 33 Dunster St. with fake I.D. cards. Either that or chasing members of the opposite sex with a vigor that makes the Freshman Mixer look like a 50th reunion cocktail party...
...President did his part last week to keep the sales pressure on. He invited key members of Congress into the Oval Office for 20-minute pep talks, held a cocktail party for a dozen legislators and their wives and spoke with 25 Republicans he is counting on heavily to push his bills. Reagan also threw a party, including a condensed version of the leggy Broadway hit A Chorus Line, for the nation's Governors and their wives. Thirty-one of the Governors are Democrats, and more than one-third of the budget cuts announced so far by the Administration...
...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...