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...Cocktail-Party Talk. Dozens of like emotional divertissements are catalogued in this slender volume, which was written mainly for psychotherapists and reads that way; in Berne's terms, for example, human boredom becomes "structure hunger." But after publication last August, the book slowly began to catch on not only with the referees but with the players. A modest first printing of 3,000 has been succeeded by eight more, for a total of 83,000 copies...
...since the test of admission is often not so much whether the school is right for the child, but whether the parents are right for the school. The key to acceptance often lies in the references they supply for their child, influential names collected from family friends or at cocktail parties and business lunches. But an admissions director deluged with reference letters may observe the old rule of thumb that "a thick folder indicates a thick boy." An edge is conceded to parents with prominent names or prominent bank accounts; yet any hint that they are trying to buy their...
...Third Day. Looking agitated, George Peppard climbs through a broken guardrail, glances below at the riverbank where his Lincoln Continental and a take-home cocktail waitress have come to a bad end. He staggers off to a plush roadhouse where he is eyed knowingly by the bartender, the pianist, and his waiting chauffeur. He blinks, confused, unable to place faces but sensing in the situation something familiar. The familiar something is, of course, amnesia-the basic blackout of more suspense melodramas than most moviegoers care to remember...
Saffir concocted the idea of the paper over a drink at a United Nations cocktail party, where he met the Latin American journalist Jorge Losada, who is now the Times's editor in chief. After 13 years as editor of the Spanish-language Latin American newsmagazine Visión, Losada was convinced that U.S. businessmen, with roughly $10 billion in investments in Latin America, were hungry for more news from the land where their money is. And Saffir, a longtime I.N.S. foreign correspondent, who had brought out the highly profitable New York Standard during the 1963 newspaper strike...
When Gian Carlo Menotti took over the cobbled Umbrian city of Spoleto in 1958 for his first Festival of Two Worlds, the musical fringe of Manhattan's cocktail circuit followed him and introduced the martini to local opera buffs. Italian bluebloods rapidly caught on, and musica é martini dry became the order...