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Marketing, however, can’t gloss over the truth forever. What transpires down at the end of JFK Street is not the catalysis of idealism but rather a sort of cotillion for political nerds. It absorbs every freshman looking to exercise their obligations as a citizen and churns out a mixture of political technicians, professional hand-shakers, and disillusioned burnouts...
...from 300,000 in 1975 to its present 1.3 million. Says she: "The term means any food cooked in America today." Weimer explains the nationwide surge in gastronomic interest this way: "The '50s represented a low point in American cooking. Mothers were more interested in seeing that children got cotillion lessons than in busying themselves all day in front of the Amana range. This new generation went to Europe and Asia, where they tasted real food. When they came back to the U.S., they came back hungry...
...Jauer, debuting was a process that encompassed more than a few months. She didn’t take any special lessons because, she explains, etiquette was presupposed. Jauer details a list of debutante musts: “I went to Cotillion since grade school and you’re expected to know how to eat properly, how to conduct yourself, how to be a hostess, how to introduce yourself to people, how to initiate conversations and hold them with adults. You’re expected to be that girl already, before...
...Angeles area, dance instructor Gaye Smith teaches ballroom and social graces to about 1,000 children a month in three different locations. Two years ago, she established a new class in Camarillo because 93 students from that town were driving over to her cotillion in Westlake Village so they could learn to dance...
...principles taught in ballroom are skills that children can carry over into other areas. It is like tennis or golf--when you are taught the fundamentals, you have the ability to develop good form throughout." Middle schoolers in particular benefit from ballroom, believes Tammy Hutchinson of the Atlanta-based Cotillion group, because "they're trying to find themselves at a hugely self-conscious time in their lives. And they don't have many social opportunities. So we provide a supervised, structured environment where they can learn something but also have a lot of fun." That's why Caryl Fernandez signed...