Word: cocktailing
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...boost as being banned in Boston. Since Evtushenko and the few other desk-drawer poets lucky enough to achieve publication are seldom permitted editions of more than a few thousand, their works are mostly transmitted verbally or copied from furtive, short-lived poetry magazines with names such as Cocktail and Boomerang. In Moscow and Leningrad, there are hundreds of unpublishable poets who advertise their calling by aping scruffy U.S. beatniks down to dirty dungarees, unkempt beards, and unfathomable doggerel...
...year. Its contents are preponderantly secular, right down to the ads: in C.D.'s pages, an advertisement offering a $6.95 rosary containing "earth from catacombs of Rome" competes with a suggestion from the Christian Brothers of California to serve their newest wine "well chilled at cocktail hour." One in seven of C.D.'s readers is a non-Catholic-and that one is repeatedly urged to write in and challenge church dictum on everything from bullfighting to Evangelist Billy Graham...
...then, Denver's working girls were deep in a conversational subject that has taken over the U.S.-survival under atomic attack. At cocktail parties and P.T.A. meetings and family dinners, on buses and commuter trains and around office watercoolers, talk turns to shelters. Almost everyone-man, woman and child-has an opinion. Those opinions differ wildly. Many feel that blast and fallout shelters are cowardly. "They would convert our people into a horde of rabbits, scurrying for warrens, where they would cower helplessly while waiting the coming of a conqueror," said Major General John B. Medaris (ret.), former chief...
...festive sounds that came from the tin-roofed village school at Namone last week suggested a cocktail party more than a peace conference. Burgundy and beer at lunch added to the hilarity. While the spokesman for the ''neutralist" bloc laughed uproariously at his own jokes, pigs rooted about on the dirt floor scavenging bits of juicy pork and chicken from the table. Even stone-faced General Phoun Sipraseuth, leader of the Communist Pathet Lao delegation, occasionally showed a frozen smile...
Welles' world has long since passed away; it was dying long before he was born. But the diplomatic service is in many ways one of the world's most conservative institutions. That is the reason that what occurs at conference tables and Embassy cocktail parties has had so little effect on events. American diplomats established cordial relations with men as important as themselves. The old world of personal diplomacy in which gentlemen reached equitable settlements of remote matters has little relationship to the world in which men kill and die for their livelihood...