Word: cocktailing
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...Repertory Company--America's most consistently fine rep company applies its ample talent to Eliot's "Cocktail Party" and Richard Wilbur's translation of "The Misanthrope." Britisher Brian Bedford is a happy addition to the list of players. Student tickets available. At the LYCEUM, 45th...
Despite the conference's size, the group was surprisingly close knit and insular. It was somehow satisfying to walk into the cocktail party that initiated the conference and see Harold Cruse, the black writer, deep in conversation with Jan Kott, the Polish professor of Comparative Literature. Still, it was at the same time disconcerting to see how many of the new arrivals greeeted each other as old friends. Either the intellectual world was very small or representatives of only a small part of it had made it to the conference...
...participants, and by its elaborate coverage--there were probably as many reporters as participants and the cameramen were ubiquitous--the news media admitted implicitly the importance of the people whom it ridiculed in daily copy. Most of their stories were manufactured. They wondered through the dinners and cocktail parties sometimes ignored, but sometimes attracting knots of intellectuals who spoke as avidly as the reporters wrote...
...REPERTORY COMPANY races through Moliere's The Misanthrope with a light touch and airy style but gets bogged down by the heavily symbolic psychological poetry of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party...
...drawing rooms. In the Louis XIV salon of The Misanthrope, they are at ease with Molière's verse spoof of hypocrisy in higher society. But they appear awkward amidst the English modern of a fashionable London flat, where T. S. Eliot's metaphysical comedy, The Cocktail Party, takes place...