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...wholeheartedly concede that the human body is a thing of great beauty and that things of great beauty should be admired and appreciated. However, as a wife, mother and registered nurse, I find the vision of a pair of breasts bouncing over a cocktail tray outrageous to my sense of "public decency." The human body should not appear publicly out of context with the values classified roughly as "the finer things of life," including mature adult love, fine art and music...
...Simons go out rarely, usually avoid the cocktail-party circuit. They enjoy visits from their two sons, Donald, 28, a University of Southern California graduate student, and Robert, 26, head of Hunt's vegetable procurement division, and their three grandchildren. They travel frequently, last week returned from a ten-day trip to Florence and Rome, where they soaked up art and opera and ate canelloni and Florentine steaks. At home, they prefer to entertain in small groups, mostly drawn from art and education circles, that make for lively conversation. Jean Fowles and her husband Edward at tended one meal...
What are these beneficial uses? Most people who take a drink or two before dinner, and even many of those who take three or four at a noisy cocktail party, know some of the basic facts. Alcohol is a relaxant (it appears to act as a stimulant only because it masks fatigue); and because it relaxes first the "most civilized" functions of the brain, it tends to banish worry. It makes people more tolerant of each other's foibles. It loosens tongues, and may dissolve some legal and moral restraints. But Dr. Chafetz is chary of the widely held...
Perhaps the main activity of the clubs is the selection of new members in the Fall--the "punching season," lasting from early October to just after Thanksgiving. A series of cocktail parties, country outings and formal dinners are held by each club so that sophomores who are prospective club material may get to know members of the clubs and at the same time final club members can look them over. A sheet is kept on each sophomore that a club is punching. Members of the club make comments on each "punchee." Sophomores unpopular with members of a club simply stop...
Says Yale's Philosophy Professor Paul Weiss: "They were never true eggheads, those tempted by cocktail parties and Government grants. The true intellectual does not even belong in his own group and never has many friends." Robert Hutchins agrees, distinguishing between operators and real intellectuals. "An intellectual is trying to find out what truth is," he says. "Operators are trying to get something done. Socrates wasn't trying to free slaves, help the poor, or even get federal aid to education. He tried to find out how people ought to live, how a good community is organized...