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...Peanuts cocktail napkins lie forgotten in pantry drawers, and Beethoven's face glares up from abandoned Schroeder sweatshirts in musty Goodwill Stores. Charlie Brown calendars are replaced on bedroom walls by Sierra Club gloss, or Playboy Mag. glamour. "Snoopy and the Red Baron" is by now a tarnished golden oldie...
...During a cocktail conversation at the Faculty Club, McCarthy--referring to Father Conway's Question Box which used to appear in 1930 Catholic weeklies--said. "The box used to pose questions about Catholicism, life, and God and then answer them with pat, inadequate answers. We used to be stimulated by the questions and then, not accept their answers--this was the downfall of strict Catholicism for us." McCarthy went on to say that, in the same way there are no exact, easy answers in politics. Earlier, in the Signet Society, he had told a group of Harvard students." I offered...
...grown up, a fairy-tale heiress to a legacy of ambition and success, a curiosity, a sex symbol. As did Jackie and Ethel in their time and turn, Joan Kennedy has become a public personality in her own right. On the gilt and antique gristmill that is the Washington cocktail circuit, she has been no less a source of speculation in recent months than Teddy himself. One day, she is a shy, self-styled homebody. The next, she is playing the piano on nationwide television, or shocking Washington with dresses cut down to there or slit up to here. Asks...
This past weekend I went to a party in one of the Harvard houses. The residents of the apartment were having the party as an experiment in personal interactions, but it turned out to be an intensive course in cocktail chatter. I was not aware of the social code that the other guest observed. The first step was to collect as many names as possible, and to address everyone by name each time he passed. The second step was to collect one piece of information about the person, but never anything that led to substantial conversation. The third step...
...redeem liberal arts, my interviewer told me the suspense-filled story of "The Tiger and the Lady." Then I was told that the story of the tiger and the lady had the impact or even substance of talking about X-ray analysis. I regret that the acute importance of cocktail chatter had to be shown to me in this way, but I laugh because the Harvard guest feels so threatened by my presence. LISA KLEIN A Metallurgy major...