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Stage Whines. Anxiety seems to be the dominant fact?and is threatening to become the dominant cliche?of modern life. It shouts in the headlines, laughs nervously at cocktail parties, nags from advertisements, speaks suavely in the board room, whines from the stage, clatters from the Wall Street ticker, jokes with fake youthfulness on the golf course and whispers in privacy each day before the shaving mirror and the dressing table. Not merely the black statistics of murder, suicide, alcoholism and divorce betray anxiety (or that special form of anxiety which is guilt), but almost any innocent, everyday...
...help manual, The S-Man aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success. A British export, the book lacks the clubby good humor of Parkinson and Potter, substitutes instead the wittily barbed aphorisms of the success man's ascent ("New friends are best friends"). Cocktail party Platos will find a host of new S-Man concepts, including the Inhibition Barrier, the Law of Party Parity, and the Prostitute's Fallacy ("A sign of stagnancy is to do the same thing again for the same amount of money...
...standard liquor-effects test given "in a sterile and impersonal laboratory with specified amounts of medicinal alcohol out of a graduated flask." The new system, the letter asserts, will make it possible to test the effects of alcohol in situations ranging from heavy-drinking parties to quiet cocktail affairs...
After their exertion at the rally, many YSF members relaxed at cocktail parties. Talking with the movement's rank-and-file gave one a distinct feeling that they were by no means bigots, embittered cynics, or oldsters pompous before their time. (The YAF leadership and its adult advisors have taken great pains to eliminate that resist fringe which tries to attach itself to conservative groups, much as Communists bedevil liberal organizations.) While these students believed deeply in their philosophy of natural law, in the free market, limited government etc.,--and had often suffered for their convictions in terms of lower...
Although balking at any generalities and rarely agreeing on particulars, they found that a Harvard education has a distinctly different orientation from their own. "We are taught how to think," said Gelles, "you learn the facts." Yarvin observed that many Harvard courses are "cocktail conversation classes--the students learn more of what the great men said than...