Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this introduction, Warsh calls this the "social world of economics," It's world that includes interesting little tidbits perfect for cocktail party conversation--like the fact that John Maynard Keynes, the force behind interventionist government theory, was " a fairly promiscuous, always intense denizen of a hot-house society...
...their huge faces streaked with pity." What he really sees is a drive-in movie screen. In "Work" two men strip an abandoned house for scrap wire; afterwards they go to the local bar, where the barmaid "poured doubles like an angel, right up to the lip of a cocktail glass, no measuring." This "angel" bartends in a grungy bar, but to the sobbing protagonist she is nurse and mother...
...they satisfy McNally, who mixes didacticism into his realist story to make for an unholy cocktail. He winds up with a diffuse, inarticulate bundle of ideas, but his agenda is obvious throughout. The dedication betrays his inflated vision of the word. "To the living." He wants to make sweeping statements, to express the human condition. To this end, he stuffs ponderous, unwieldy philosophical proclamations into the mouths of his characters. Jenna, the swimming coach who thinks that her pornographic part prompted the suicides, tells herself. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was made flesh, and once passion...
This extravaganza comes courtesy of the highest House dues on campus, and very much in the tradition of old Master Heimert's cocktail parties, symbols of the extravagance, elegance and downright elitism that have marked Eliot as long as anyone can remember. Ah, those were the days. --Brian D. Ellison...
Mitchell's predecessor, Alan E. Heimert '49, who retired last year after 23 years as master, was seen as the steward who retained the traditions of Old Harvard at Eliot House. Heimert's tenure was characterized by weekly cocktail hours and particularly indulgent celebrations at the Eliot Fete. When he retired along with Senior Tutor Donald Bacon, also a longtime fixture of Eliot life, many thought an era had ended...