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Bouffant & Beads. Swirling with Kennedys, Washington society turned itself inside out in its most glittering display in years. Dinner dances, luncheons, buffets, receptions, cocktail parties-they flashed on and off like the lights on an electronic computer. No event could be considered a success without the appearance of at least one Kennedy-and, since there were more than enough Kennedys around, there were few failures on that account. The inaugural committee threw a huge affair at the National Gallery to welcome Bess Truman, the Cabinet wives, the Kennedy and Johnson ladies, and other women of importance; the hall became...
...decision last week to shut off all travel to Cuba, makes it harder to shunt agents back and forth. Castro's decree of the death penalty for all counter-revolutionary activities-including mere possession of a bottle of gasoline (in Castro's lexicon, that equals one Molotov cocktail)-"is having a great effect," says a Frente leader. "Underground work is much harder now. People are no longer willing to hide revolutionaries because it means death...
...chat with the Duke of Edinburgh about how to bring up children, which he did recently at the dedication of a British plant, or sacrifice his digestion to insistent entertainers, as he did on a 50,000-mile, three-week trip to Africa that included no luncheons, dinners and cocktail parties. Rathbone has also elevated TV standards by having Standard sponsor the controversial Play of the Week last year and a current Shakespeare series called An Age of Kings, insisting on the view, radical to most corporations, that Standard leave complete control of the program to producers...
Talisman, Copaken, and their board of directors (roommates and friends) now plan additional lines of cocktail and Christmas cards...
...trouble is too much freedom, too little stability, widespread amorality brought on by "the great democratic mess in which there's no hierarchy, no scale of values, everything's as good-and therefore as bad-as everything else." This dour viewpoint may be valid, as cocktail-hour philosophizing goes, but its polemical exposition in the first chapter damps the chemical process that produces satire. Burgess writes comically enough about TV-induced catatonia. the god-awfulness of roast mutton, and the entanglements of adultery, but the reader feels compelled to check each incident with the solemn preamble-is such...