Word: cocktailing
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...those hell-bent on going pre-professional at a school other than Harvard, Harvard's best cocktail party conversation course can be gotten out of the way in only 8 weeks. Indeed FNAR S-13e zips you through one century of Western art every five days, allowing you to get back to the more serious professional pursuits of organic chemistry and business economics...
...same education from the course as you would from 28 weeks of it during the school year, you will probably finish the summer course with a shovel of nearly the same size for your next cocktail party...
...when a French inventor named Georges Claude developed a long-life electrode. One early practical application: a giant white Cinzano sign over the chimneys of Paris. After being introduced into the U.S. in 1923, neon flourished for nearly two decades, especially as an accent for fantasies: movie houses, cocktail lounges, casinos. In the 1950s, when television took visual advertising from rooftops to the living room, neon began blinking out. It was left to a few dedicated preservationists around the country to salvage classic signs. A San Diego group rescued endangered examples like a 6,000- sq.-ft. marquee from...
...avid outdoorsman, Volcker generally avoids the Potomac cocktail party circuit, favoring more sporting diversions...
...nation entertains at home is also changing. The time when a host or hostess stocked up on whiskey for the winter, gin and tonic in summer, some bottles of white wine and a six-pack of beer year-round is gone. "I've had three cocktail parties recently," says Doris Yaffe, fashion and publicity < director for Saks Fifth Avenue in Boston. "I can't tell you how much liquor I was left with." The nation's caterers have seen hardliquor sales drop from more than half to less than one-quarter of their business. New York City Caterer Donald Bruce...