Word: hostessing
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...come under fire from the Republican women surrounding the First Lady: "She is not doing anything for Pat." Leading the critics is Washington's great mouthpiece, Martha Mitchell, who recently added Connie to her list of early morning phone calls. Connie had neglected to give Martha credit as hostess for a luncheon attended by Mrs. Nixon. Declared Martha: "Connie is trying to get rid of me because I announced to the press that I called...
...Heart Ball, the U.J.A. and the N.A.A.C.P.−to take up extreme, exotic, earthy and more titillating causes. To hear Wolfe tell it, radical chic lays some deliciously agonizing stresses upon the Beautiful People. How do you dress, for instance−funky or fashionable? And what does a hostess giving a Panther party do about Claude and Maude, her normally indispensable Negro couple...
...grape workers, who are not merely radical and 'of the soil' but also Latin; the Panthers, with their leather pieces, Afros, shades, and shoot-outs; and the Red Indians, who, of course, had always seemed primitive, exotic, and romantic." And yet while supporting her cause, the Radically Chic hostess has also to maintain the proper apartment, the proper address, and, of course, the proper servants. At best, the "radicalism" of the "chic" is a tempered sympathy, complicated by social striving, misguided liberalism, and, in the case of the significant Jewish involvement, memory of an analogous oppression...
...House, but Mrs. Nixon's staff director, Connie Stuart (whom Martha once threatened to call at 5 a.m. because her messages did not seem to be getting through to the First Lady), told newshens merely that Mrs. Nixon was attending a luncheon at Blair House, without any mention of Hostess Mitchell. In flaming fury, Martha telephoned a Washington Star reporter, charged that "Connie is trying to get rid of me," and wailed: "How can anybody take over my party? It's just unbelievable. I cried my eyes out today. Somebody should get down and bleed...
...wife of one ambassador knows they are different. She recently gave a dinner for 20 well-known Republicans, ten of whom turned out to be nondrinking Mormons. Valiantly the hostess tried to disguise the situation by serving the teetotalers Vichy water instead of the first wine, Evian water instead of the second and ginger ale instead of champagne. But it was wasted effort. "A drag," reported one of the drinkers afterward...