Word: cocktailing
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...caucused around their motel-headquarters pool one morning, met again that night to whoop it up until the wee hours. The Texas delegation honored Governor John Connally with a Dior-and diamond-filled bash at Atlantic City's aging Haddon Hall, and the New Jersey host delegation gave cocktail parties on three successive afternoons in a penthouse suite overlooking the ocean...
Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. borrowed .the biggest yacht in town-a 40-footer owned by New York Industrialist John Snyder-to throw a dockside luncheon. Junior later showed up at a cocktail buffet given by some Washington buddies who had, at $10 an hour, rented a donkey named Joey to liven things up. The President's Club, a collection of party faithful who have kicked in $1,000 or more to the campaign war chest, gave a beach clambake featuring 3,250 lobsters trucked down from Maine's Casco Bay the night before. While...
...Miami Beach attorney, who will soon start distributing machines manufactured in Chicago. He already has installed them in New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas and dozens of military bases, and has a backlog of 2,500 orders. If Malnik has his way, every public place from the hoitiest cocktail lounge to the toitiest pizza parlor will be swinging to musies, all of which are eventually to be produced by Malnik himself. Meanwhile, Scopitone screens are filled by French films. One typical Gallic offering, El Gato Montés, captures the jollity of the annual Pamplona fiesta with trumpet playing, flamenco...
...Cocktail Party is one of the best plays in English. It speaks with marvelous clarity on the problems of the human condition, probes the nature of faith and despair, and, amazingly enough, makes excellent theater. Part of its appeal is the interaction Eliot has managed to contrive among its many "levels:" the Alcestis myth, the theological essay, the drawing-room comedy. The language of the play, for example, is more than one kind of language; although it moves in strict classical meters, it reproduces exactly the cadences of upper middle-class London speech...
...have been hard on this production because I am extremely fond of The Cocktail Party and hate to see it murdered. Repertory theater is a good thing and the Theatre Company of Boston is a very good think. pany of Boston is a very good thing. One expects such a company to have its failings and its limitations, but one also expects the director of such a company to realize those limitations and not try to tackle something outside them. David Wheeler has made just that mistake in putting on The Cocktail Party...