Word: cocktailing
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...richest masterpieces of the Western literary canon are thoroughly infused with Biblical and mythological language. If Homer had better legal representation, would James Joyce’s Ulysses have ever been published? Intertextuality isn’t just a word that literature majors throw around at their swank cocktail parties—it’s a fundamental attribute of creative expression.Even in an age when copyright terms have been extended to absurd lengths in order to keep Mickey Mouse locked up and proprietary, there is a viable movement of people who question the balkanization of artistic expression. Lawrence Lessig...
...leak a real secret about the prisons, for example. I ran into all sorts of journalists, and I usually said I was whatever my cover was. But you were not obligated to write back and say, "I ran into X journalist in Damascus, and we were at a cocktail party, and we are going to get together for lunch." It was not something you had to report. Unauthorized contact with a journalist is a new standard. You cannot be assigned overseas and not run into a U.S. journalist. You're just completely isolating the CIA. You use journalists...
...low.Some have also chosen to draw broader conclusions from this situation by linking it to the dog-eat-dog, rat-racing, ladder-climbing, and corner-cutting mentality of Harvard students. Others have related it to the stressful nature of college admissions, and still others have blamed a cocktail of overzealous parents and intense pressure. But such extrapolation should be braved with caution. Viswanathan is but one student among 6,500 undergraduates, and our knowledge of the details of her transgression is still limited and partially speculative. What is clear, however, is that Harvard is neither a city on a hill...
...breakdance—he’ll challenge anyone to a dance off! He is involved in City Step and the Mission Hill After School Program. He loves shoes—he wore bright blue and red dunks laced up in bright green laces to the Fifteen Minutes cocktail party. He once camped out in front of the Tannery for a pair of shoes, and he has over 20 pairs of sneakers in his Harvard dorm...
...Blackley. BUSINESS AND PLEASUREWith the constant pressures of networking and recruiting, socializing is hard work for HBS students. From November until winter break, firms arrive on campus to give company presentations. Business is always mixed with pleasure at HBS—firms follow up their presentations with open bars, cocktail receptions, and dinners where upper-level directors wine and dine in the hopes of attracting top talent to their firms. “It’s fun socializing,” says section E member Harald W. Klug. “But it’s also kind...