Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ever mention what you got on your thesis—whether you did good or bad—you would be labeled an asshole. You see, naive boy, your thesis means nothing but what you want it to mean. It is merely a footnote dropped at a cocktail party...
George H. Blaustein, a graduate student in English who is close to New, played the piano during the cocktail hour. “I concentrated on playing, and therefore didn’t really notice any notable deans, professors and politicos,” Blaustein said. “Other festivities were lined up after cocktails and dinner, but unfortunately I was unable to stay for very long...
...writer who collaborated with Ry Cooder, the Byrds and the Beach Boys; of melanoma; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Melcher, the son of actress Doris Day, produced the Byrds' version of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man and co-wrote the Beach Boys' pop hit Kokomo for the 1988 film Cocktail...
...even those sitting in the seats reserved for students don’t always understand that The Game—or any game, for that matter—isn’t a black-tie gathering, at which attendees quietly bide their time before cocktail hour. They don’t quite realize that the range of appropriate reactions can include sitting on one’s hands as Yale endures yet another blunder, but might also include “cheering” and “standing...
...companies to set up child-care facilities, subsidizing university fees and promoting long-term employment over short-term contracts. More generous policies like those of France and Scandinavia would require higher taxes, a trade-off many European governments aren't willing to make. "What we need is a good cocktail," says Lesthaeghe, "more policies aimed at promoting flexibility between work and home - day-care centers, early schooling, flex time - but also a doubling of immigration rates and higher participation in the labor market for older people and women." But unless it becomes more palatable, affordable and even fashionable for families...