Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Orlean’s adventures have left her with a cache of anecdotes that go beyond the standard cocktail party fare. Have you ever chatted with a female bullfighter in Spain? She has. Split your time between old-school rappers and dog show aficionados? Check. Written an article for an outdoors magazine that got made into the summer blockbuster Blue Crush? Waded through alligator-ridden swampwater in search of an elusive “ghost orchid?” And did Meryl Streep play you in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation? Orlean can boast all this and more...
About 50 Harvard workers and students demanded more full-time work for campus custodians in a protest outside an alumni cocktail reception in Lamont Library Friday...
...interview Lennon, and returned bearing the stunning intelligence that his then wife Cynthia, who was traveling with the group, cut his hair with fingernail scissors. In a documentary film of the tour made by Albert and David Maysles, I can be seen joshing with Ringo Starr at a cocktail reception over whether Beatlemania was "all just a con." This bit of footage, authenticating that I had once basked in the presence of a Beatle, would in later years endow me with a measure of heroism in the eyes of my three children...
...marveled at my continental philosophy course. But while I’d chosen it because reading the great minds of the 20th century seemed fundamental, she simply exclaimed: “That’s wonderful! You’ll always have something fabulous to talk about at cocktail parties!” Before our exchange I hadn’t deluded myself that my views on Derrida and Foucault would ever change the world, but I did believe I was pursuing something less mundane than cocktail party fare. I was crest-fallen. Where was the appreciation for the humanistic...
Thus, while many prepare to become scientists and businessmen, I know all I’m doing is preparing myself for life as a cocktail party. Since destitution is not high on my list, I console myself with the knowledge that refuge can always be sought in law school. Later, I will meet up with my former humanities peers to reminisce about the times we studied the Oresteia, Mark Rothko and panoptic power discourse. It will be wonderful. Assuming, of course, that our memory will be good enough to still retain anything we studied in these distant college days...